Reading Experience Database Browse Reader Readings N

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aeschylus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sophocles	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Euripides		Print: Book
	1600-1699	'In the year 1655. was published by Mr Web a Booke intituled Stonehenge-restored (but writt by Mr Inigo Jones) which ...	John Aubrey	Inigo Jones	Stonehenge Restored	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings...	Jane Austen	Samuel Egerton Brydges	Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.'	Jane Austen	James Boswell	Tour to the Hebrides	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolu...	Jane Austen			Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.'	Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant	Heinrich Heine	De l'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors...	Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Re...	Jane Austen	Thomas Sherlock	[sermons]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'.	Jane Austen	unknown	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch...	Jane Austen	Maria Edgeworth	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch...	Jane Austen	Ann Radcliffe	[Gothic novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch...	Jane Austen	Regina Maria Roche	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch...	Jane Austen	Charlotte Smith	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch...	Jane Austen	Laetitia Matilda Hawkins	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch...	Jane Austen	Jane West	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch...	Jane Austen	Hannah More	Coelebs in Search of a Wife	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch...	Jane Austen		Lady's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially ad...	Jane Austen	Charlotte Lennox	Female Quixote, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially ad...	Jane Austen	Eaton Barrett	The Heroine	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richards...	Jane Austen	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charle...	Catherine Talbot	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro...	Susan Sibbald	Ann Radcliffe		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...	Princess Charlotte	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...	Princess Charlotte	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...	Princess Charlotte		[memoirs and history]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...	Princess Charlotte	Anne Plumptre	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...	Ellen Weeton	Alain Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...	Ellen Weeton	Mary Wortley Montagu	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...	Ellen Weeton		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...	Ellen Weeton		[magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...	Ellen Weeton	James Boswell	Tour of the Hebrides	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...	Ellen Weeton	Mungo Park	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...	Ellen Weeton	[Madame] de Genlis		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...	Ellen Weeton	Elizabeth Hamilton	The Cottagers of Glenburnie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr...	William Henry Davies	William Henry Davies	'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poems	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Thursday 16 sept 1824. Had a visit from my friend Henderson of Milton who brought 'Don Juan' in his Pocket' [He] 'ad...	John Clare	Byron	Don Juan	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	"Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one co...	John Clare		John Bull Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament'	John Clare		The New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today	John Clare	John Foxe	Foxes Book of Martyrs	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him...	John Clare	Izaak Walton	The Complete Angler	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goeth...	John Clare		The London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great de...	John Clare		The Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ...	John Clare	William Shakespeare	The Sonnets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ...	John Clare	Thomas Chatterton	'Poems of Chatterton'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot.	John Clare		Moore's Almanack	Print: almanack
	1800-1849	'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ...	John Clare	William Collins Collins	'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ...	John Clare	John Ogilvie	'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscio...	John Clare		'the Song Solomon'	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'P...	John Clare	John Milton		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consi...	John Clare	Thomas Gray	Letters	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making i...	John Clare		The Human Heart	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon'	John Clare	Josiah Conder	The Star in the East	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol].	John Clare	John Hamilton Reynolds	The Garden of Florence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love'	John Clare		Epistle of St John	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...].	John Clare		[playbill]	Print: Handbill, playbill
	1700-1799	Read the News	John Yeoman			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Nothing Remarkable happend the Morning Noon nor evening of that Day, only Read the play called the Scool for Wifes.	John Yeoman	Hugh Kelly	The School for Wives	Unknown
	1700-1799	I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captain...	John Yeoman	Tobias Smollett	Roderick Random	Unknown
	1700-1799	Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random	John Yeoman	Tobias Smollett	Roderick Random	Unknown
	1700-1799	after [a morning walk] I Read the News.	John Yeoman			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the News	John Yeoman			Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book o...	John Gadbury	Robert Burton	The Anatomy of Melancholy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Complete transcript of Cowper's poem.	Anon	William Cowper	The Negro's complaint	Unknown
	1800-1849	From the 'West Indies' a Poem by Montgomery.Part 2 Page 22 'In These romantic regions[...] From the same, Part 3 'Ther...	John Warburton	James Montgomery	The West Indies	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Pindar	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Callimachus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Apollonius Rhodius	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Quintus Calaber	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Theocritus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Herodotus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Thucydides	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Xenophon	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aristotle	Politics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aristotle	Organon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lucian	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Athenaeus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aeschylus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sophocles	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Pindar	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Theocritus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Terence	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lucretius	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Catullus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Albius Tibullus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sextus Propertius	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lucan	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Silius Italicus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Livy	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Velleius Paterculus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sallust	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Caesar	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aristophanes	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Monk	Biography of Richard Bentley	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Theocritus	Seventh Idyll	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Ben Jonson	The Alchemist	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Ben Jonson	Catiline	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Alexander Pope	The Rape of the Lock	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, f...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Horace	Satires	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Paul Louis Courier	Le Simple Discours
	1800-1849	'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Paul Louis Courier	Le Simple Discours
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Walter Scott		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Charles and Mary Lamb		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	George Eliot		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Alfred Tennyson		Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Benjamin Disraeli		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to r...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		Bible (Old Testament), the	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some l...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes			Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Not as a lesson, but for sheer pleasure, did I browse in "A Child's History of Rome", a book full of good stories.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		A Child's History of Rome	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Dr Brewer	Guide to Science	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		Rosy's Voyage Around the World	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		The Little Gypsy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Lewis Carroll	Alice in Wonderland	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I......	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Lewis Carroll	Through the Looking Glass	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Jonathan Swift	Essay on the Fates of Clergymen	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Edward Gibbon	Vindication	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Conyers Middleton	Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Bio...	John Horrocks Ainsworth	Robert Dodsley	The Economy of Human Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to...	John Horrocks Ainsworth	Allan Ramsay	The Gentle Shepherd	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Looked through a volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - read an account of Gordon's Portable Gas Lamp, and of...	John Horrocks Ainsworth		The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it.	John Horrocks Ainsworth	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd.	John Horrocks Ainsworth	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Wholesome dinners produce haviness and ill humour commenced Peveril of the Peak.	John Horrocks Ainsworth	Walter Scott	Peveril of the Peak	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Finished Peveril of the Peak.	John Horrocks Ainsworth	Walter Scott	Peveril of the Peak	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The story itself was an allegory, and was too subtle for us, but it is impossible to describe the endless pleasure gi...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		The Story without an End	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture t...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes			Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		The Safe Compass	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		The Peep of the Day	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Ric...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes			Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		Little Arthur	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover a...	Alexander Kinglake	Margaret Oliphant	The Lover and his Lass	Print: Book
	1850-1899	One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping ...	Annie Coghill		Crossing the Bar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had read in Cobbett's "Advice to Young Men" a caution not to depend upon the Muses for substantial support ... he i...	John Teer	William Cobbett	Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young W	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of th...	Charles Manby Smith	William Cobbett	A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Volume annotated in Dawson's own hand. Includes correction to Preface and a contents list.	John Dawson	Marquis of Chatele, Paul Hay	The Politics of France	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Manuscript list of 'The Proverbs & c in this Book' (in Dawson's hand) has been bound into the rear of the book.	John Dawson	Nathan Bailey	Universal Etymological Dictionary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Contains a contents list, index to illustrations, index to maps and cross references to other texts in his library.	John Dawson	William Camden	Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Gre	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Two volumes bound together by Dawson and including his 'The Pages Where the affairs in this Book begin for 1723' and '...	John Dawson		The Historical Register	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Thomas Hughes	Tom Brown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Hans Christian Andersen	Tales	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		Good Words for the Young	Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes
	1850-1899	'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion....	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		The Dark Journey	Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical
	1850-1899	'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		Henry Milner	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"......	Barnholt Thomas		Bible, The (Book of Esther)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		The Narrow Way	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired o...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes			Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	John Foxe	Book of Martyrs	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many mo...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Robert Michael Ballantyne	The Iron Horse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flowers	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		Cassell's Family Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Jules Verne	Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry...	John Clare	James Thomson	The Seasons	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say ...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes		The Heir of Redclyffe	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason f...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understo...	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	William Gladstone		Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	father of Thomas Jones		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	father of Thomas Jones			Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "f...	John Johnson	Adam Smith	The Wealth of Nations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun...	John Johnson	John Stuart Mill	Principles of Political Economy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun...	John Johnson	Alfred Marshall	Principles of Economics	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun...	John Johnson		[history and philosophy]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and gre...	Edwin Muir		Great Thoughts	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen	Philip Stanhope, 4th Lord Chesterfield	Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen		T.P. and Cassell's Weekly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen	Elinor Glyn	The Career of Catherine Bush	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen	Geoffrey Chaucer		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen	John Donne		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen	Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen	James Joyce	Finnegan's Wake	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Tho...	Ben Tillett	Thomas Carlyle		Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for ...	Edmund Stonelake	Thomas Carlyle		Print: Book, Unknown
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been loo...	John Wyn		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been loo...	John Wyn		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for burglary: John Monk: "I have for some years past supported myself by thieving... Wai...	John Monk			Print: Handbill
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for burglary/ receiving stolen goods: Henry Ewer: "I am a shopman to Mr Dobree, Oxford-s...	Henry Ewer			Print: Handbill
	1700-1799	Prisoner's defence in trial for highway robbery: "When I came home I went to a coffee-house in Long-acre and asked ...	Alexander Bourk		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for receiving stolen goods: Robert Daniel Liddell: "I am in Mr Marshall's employ. On the...	Robert Daniel Liddell			Print: Handbill, playbill
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel: Prisoner questions witness Raven Q: P...	Henry Baldwin Raven		The Republican
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26t...	John Brooks	Sir John Fielding		Print: Handbill
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Butt: "On the 26th of August I took in two gravy spoons... Two days aft...	Henry Butt			Print: Handbill
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Rebecca Johnson: "I began to wash a few things after dinner, and soon after s...	Anthony Whitewood			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: John Osrorne: "I know Wood, he came to my house on the 29th of July.....	John Osrorne			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing: John Everhard Berckemyer: "On the 11th of October, about ten o'clock,...	John Everard Berckemyer			Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, playbill
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for theft: Q: "Do you know when Cox was taken up?" Taylor: "I saw it in the newspaper"	John Taylor			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspa...	Henry Barnard			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspa...	Henry Barnard			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for theft: John Williamson: "I went and got a pennyworth of gin. I had a newspaper in my...	John Williamson			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for coining: John Bailey: "I am an engraver in Fleet-market. I saw the prisoner, as well...	John Bailey			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for stealing: John Jackson: "I came up by coach, I got down at the White Horse Cellar in...	John Jackson			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for robbery: Jane Toosey swore to the court that she read about this crime in the newspa...	Jane Toosey		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for forgery: Joseph Lecree: "...a card was left for me to go to Ibberson's Coffee-house,...	Henry Griffin			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Tuck: "Last Saturday, about three o'clock, the prisoner was in my parl...	John Simmonds			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for embezzlement: Anthony Parkin: "he went on Saturday morning to a public house, the si...	John Norton			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: John Lench: "On Saturday the 7th of May, between twelve and one, I was readin...	John Lench			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: John Wiffin: "On the 1st of August, I was reading the newspaper at the Northu...	John Wiffin			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods: William de Roach: "In the middle of August I was in P...	John Pollard			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods: William de Roach: "Then the week following Mrs Rippen...	John Pollard			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for murder: Henry Bracken: "I caused hom to be apprehended. I read the description of hi...	Henry Bracken			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for deception/forgery: John Dougan: "I was going to the West Indies, in pursuance of tha...	Anthony McKenrott			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: Michael McNally: "Jack brought a newspaper to me, and read a statement that C...	John (Jack) Winter			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ...	anon	Edward Lloyd	[various titles published by Lloyd]	Print: Serial / periodical
		Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister: "'We've always had good health. We can all read'....	anon		Garden of Heaven	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker: "One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the roo...	anon		History of England	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a long-song seller: to sell ballads he not only cries their titles, but also sings the songs h...	anon			Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a running patterer -seller of broadsheets mainly dealing with crime and breaking news, sometim...	anon			Print: Broadsheet
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet: "I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I...	anon	Oliver Goldsmith	Edwin and Angelina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a 'cheap John': "From selling the printed songs, I imbibed a wish to learn to read, and, with...	anon			Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son: "My youn...	anon			Print: Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper: "The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my fami...	anon	[n/a]	Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper	Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski...	anon		Examiner	Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski...	anon		Daily News	Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski...	anon		various	Print: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my ...	anon		Family Friend	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the...	anon	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the...	anon	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the...	anon			Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader': "I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years...	anon		Gospel	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...	anon	Watts		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...	anon	John Wesley		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...	anon		religious magazines	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...	anon	Clark	Lives of Pirates	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library?
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...	anon		Tales of Shipwrecks	Print: Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...	anon		Family Herald	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	Windsor Castle	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	The Tower of London	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I thought I should make my fortune in London...	anon			Print: Book, Serial / periodical, penny books
	1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three ...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	Jack Sheppard	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	Jack Sheppard	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	Rookwood	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac...	anon		Newgate Calendar	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...	anon		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...	anon		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...	anon	Thomas Paine		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...	anon	Volney		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...	anon	George Jacob Holyoake		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...	anon	Edward Bulwer-Lytton		Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...	anon	Charles Dickens		Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...	Edwin Muir	John Keats	'Ode to a Nightingale'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...	Edwin Muir	Alfred Lord Tennyson	'The Lotus Eaters'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...	Edwin Muir	Percy Bysshe Shelley	'Ode to the West Wind'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...	Edwin Muir	Algernon Charles Swinburne	'Atalanta in Calydon'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...	Edwin Muir	Wiliam Wordsworth	'The Solitary Reaper'	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	Jack Sheppard	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	Rookwood	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
	1900-1945	'[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing...	Edwin Muir	C. Maurice Bowra	The Heritage of Symbolism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...	anon		Claude du Val	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...	anon		Newgate Calendar	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...	anon		Lives of the Robbers and Pirates	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon ...	Francis Wrangham	Juvenal	Satire X	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Percy Bysshe Shelley		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Laurence Sterne	Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Thomas More	Utopia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Herbert George Wells	The World Set Free	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes		[biography of William Penn]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Walt Whitman		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Thomas Babington Macaulay		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	James Anthony Froude		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	John Richard Green		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Thorold Rogers	Six Centuries of Work and Wages	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Thomas Carlyle	The French Revolution	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sep...	Francis Wrangham	Francis Wrangham	Brutoniad	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu...	a revolutionary Russian rag merchant	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ...	Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford	Samuel Smiles	Self Help	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 27 December 1811: 'To diminish the evil [of smoking chimneys] we have a cons...	John Wordsworth			Unknown
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'John is certainly much quicker in reading than he was. He ha...	John Wordsworth	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yest...	Algernon Montagu			Unknown
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] is reading a Story Book of Algernon [Montagu]...	John Wordsworth		[a story book]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what...	John Wordsworth	unknown	History of England	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what...	John Wordsworth		[grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she h...	Hannah More	William Wordsworth	extracts from The Excursion	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she h...	Hannah More		Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Hesiod		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Athenaeus		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cato		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Livy		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sallust		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Tacitus		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aulus Gellius		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Suetonius		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	De Finibus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Academic Questions	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Tusculan Disputations	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, lum...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	De Finibus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	De Natura Deorum	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument ag...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	De Divinatione	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Ben Jonson	Catiline	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Ben Cicero	Tusculan Disputations	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each suc...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Speeches	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Letters to Atticus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all i...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Second Philippic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier s...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Third Philippic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, exc...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Last Philippic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Protagoras	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Protagoras	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Protagoras	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Protagoras	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	William Wordsworth describes his eldest son's slowness in reading to his brother Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1...	John Wordsworth		dictionary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Crito	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded on 24 May 1812 that "I read Wordsworth some of Blake's poems; he was pleased with som...	Henry Crabb Robinson	William Blake	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] i...	John Wordsworth	M. G. Lewis	Felon, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was th...	John Clare		Cinderella	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was th...	John Clare		Jack and the Beanstalk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The L...	a Scottish joiner's son	David Moir	The Life of Mansie Wauch	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	anon	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Wi...	George Gordon Lord Byron	anon	Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	William Cowper	Friendship	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry...	Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Poems on Various Occasions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry...	Henry Mackenzie	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Poems on Various Occasions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bard...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Various	Monthly Literary Recreations	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long a...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	anon	[morning newspaper]	Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Robert Charles Dallas	unknown	Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Herodotus	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for theft: George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitec...	Nicholas Benigne Ablin		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositio...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Harness	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for highway robbery: John Gavill: "I saw his [Davis] examination in the newspapers... I...	John Gavill			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the a...	anon	Henry Brougham	review of Byron, Hours of Idleness	Print: proofManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for theft: John Mims: "I am servant to John Bird, who keeps a cook-shop in Golden Lane....	John Mims			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, ...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... y...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Henry Brougham	[speech]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi mo...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Horace	Ode ("Exegi monumentum")	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[newspapers]	Print: NewspaperUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Anon	advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake	Print: Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Galt	Fair Shepherdess, The	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Even...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Various	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hi...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Horace	De Arte Poetica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... '	George Gordon Lord Byron		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: John Spencer: "On the 6th of April, in consequence of what I saw in the newsp...	John Spencer			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for conspiracy: Rev. Francis Lee: "In May last I saw an advertisement in the Times newsp...	Rev Francis Lee		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for forgery: Henry Palmer: "In the middle of March, in the evening, I was sitting at the...	Henry Palmer			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Prisoner's defence in trial for forgery: "On reading Bell's Weekly Messager of the 25th of January last, which fell...	John Hill Wagstaff		Bell's Weekly Messager	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Cammell: "I heard the prisoner was in custody a few days after -I read it in ...	John Cammell			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft -shoplifting: Wilhelmina Clarke: "I am servant to Mr Birt... On the 12th of Ma...	John Birt			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the ...	Francis Gifford Banner		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: Stephen Davies: "on the 23rd of December he came again -I had the goo...	Stephen Davies			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for coining: John Leeming: "a few days afterwards I saw something in the newspaper, went...	John Leeming			Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy"...	John Paton		[Old and New Testament]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy"...	John Paton		[penny dreadfuls]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Francis Hodgson	[translation of Juvenal]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Francis Hodgson	Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, ver...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Richard Watson	Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq.	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When h...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published),...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Sir William Drummond	Aedipus Judaicus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Sir William Drummond	Aedipus Judaicus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Annabella Milbanke	[lines on Dermody]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Annabella Milbanke	[lines in the cave at Seaham]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend o...	[friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon	Annabella Milbanke	[poems]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Bernard Barton	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Bernard Barton	Metrical Effusions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your s...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Edward Daniel Clarke	Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1...	George Gordon Lord Byron	anon		Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	various	Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	various	[Sunday papers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... m...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	various	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the spe...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Annabella Milbanke	[biography]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.'	George Gordon, Lord Byron		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and L...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lord Brooke	[untitled manuscript]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church an...	George Gordon, Lord Byron		[epitaphs]	Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	James and Horace Smith	Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... '	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Leigh Hunt	Examiner, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke do...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lord Thurlow	"When Rogers ... "	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters f...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	John Galt	Letters from the Levant	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	anon	advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures...	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	anon	advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in ver...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	anon	Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.'	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Various	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	[poems]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lucien Buonaparte	Charlemagne	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des O...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	A. L. Castellan	Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webste...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Grimm	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure f...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	J. Thomson	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly...	Francis Place			Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster
	1700-1799	I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woma...	Francis Place		Dillworths Spelling Book	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... '	George Gordon, Lord Byron		British Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a...	Francis Place		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lucien Buonaparte	Charlemagne	Unknown
	1700-1799	I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi...	Francis Place		Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece; in Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi...	Francis Place		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi...	Francis Place	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi...	Francis Place		various religious titles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein	De l'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown	[epigram on J. W. Ward]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holida...	Francis Place			Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publicati...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein	De L'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perus...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Various	Christian Observer	Print: Serial / periodical
		Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making so...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown	Persian Tale	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputati...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Friedrich Melchoir Grimm	Correspondance Litteraire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ...	Francis Place		various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ...	Francis Place		various	Print: Book
	1800-1849	On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstan...	Francis Place	Francis Place	Autobiography	Manuscript: unpublished memoirs
	1800-1849	In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodg...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.'	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Robert Burns	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my l...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown	[books]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown, histories of Greece and Rome	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown, translated works by Greek and Roman writers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh R...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Various	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	Tobias George Smollett		Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	Henry Fielding		Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	Robertson	unknown [Robertson's works?]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	David Hume	[Hume's Essays]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		translations from French writers	Print: Book
		In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Sir Egerton Brydges	The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical and sentimental Essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown various [anatomy and surgery]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown [relating to the Arts]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown [many magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	Guthrie	unknown [Guthries Geography]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown [Geometry]	Print: Book
		In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webst...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster	letter with poem	Manuscript: Letter
		In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with hi...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Various	The Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
		In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity...	George Gordon Lord Byron	George Frederick Cooke	Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep...	John Galt	Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of)	[letter on the punishment for adultery in Turkey]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep...	Henry Fox, third Lord Holland	Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of)	[letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ......	George Gordon Lord Byron	Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lord Glenbervie	Prospectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie,	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd t...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Matthew Gregory Lewis	The Monk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the p...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to l...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[Italian]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the ba...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, an...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into t...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.'	George Gordon Lord Byron	Johann Christoph von Schiller	The Robbers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and tol...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	Anti-Byron	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by t...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Isaac Disraeli	Quarrels of Authors	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Jean Chardin	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Leonard Simonde de Sismondi	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Matteo Bandello	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the begi...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napo...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Herman Merivale	Orlando in Roncesvalles	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lo...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Leigh Hunt	The Feast of the Poets	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampo...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[ministerial gazettes]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Annabella Milbanke	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont...	Francis Place	William Blackstone	Commentaries on the Laws of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont...	Francis Place	Matthew Hale	History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont...	Francis Place		various [Law books]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont...	Francis Place		various [biographies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place	David Hume	[Essays and Treatises]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place	Adam Smith	Wealth of Nations	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place	John Locke		Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place		various [history]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place		various [voyages]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place		various [politics and law]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta...	Francis Place		[geometry text]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta...	Francis Place	Williamson	Euclid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I h...	Francis Place	Thomas Paine	Age of Reason	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'En...	Francis Place	William Godwin	Inquiry Concerning Political Justice	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learni...	Francis Place		unknown [French grammar]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never...	Francis Place	Helvetius		Print: Book
	1700-1799	I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never...	Francis Place	Jean-Jacques Rousseau		Print: Book
	1700-1799	I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never...	Francis Place	Voltaire		Print: Book
	1800-1849	I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the...	Francis Place			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Jailed for sufragette disruptions, millworker Annie Kenney rediscovered the Bible, "and I interpreted it quite differ...	Annie Kenney		[Bible]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... Accordin...	Helen Crawfurd		[Bible - Psalms]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in mo...	John Clare	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Locke	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Book of Job	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Book of Isaiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Book of Deborah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	Anti-Byron	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Frances Burney	The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Francis Jeffrey	review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... '	George Gordon Lord Byron		advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies (1814)	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at y...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Stratford Canning	Bonaparte	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a fore...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[Roman History]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends t...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[article]	Unknown
		Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appea...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Annabella Milbanke	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to p...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Murray	[advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)]	Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter
		Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Robert Charles Dallas [?]	[poem]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814: 'the best thing of that kind I met w...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[history book]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Campbell	Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to f...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (allud...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Richard Porson	Letters to Archdeacon Travis	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepte...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sit...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Annabella Milbanke	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the c...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Morning Chronicle	Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
		Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, all...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Annabella Milbanke	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Morning Chronicle	Print: NewspaperUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must no...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Cam Hobhouse	[packet]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Annual Register	Print: Serial / periodical
		Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[daily newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I als...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Byron family pedigree	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Leigh Hunt	The Story of Rimini (Canto 3)	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	for the most part reading histories, and such books of controversies as the tymes gave occastion for writing	John Bramston		various unknown [histories]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and goo...	John Bramston		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and goo...	John Bramston		various unknown [religious titles]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	He [The earl of Oxford] desired me (companie being with him) to take home the paper, and advise him what he was to do....	John Bramston		Instructions	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before ...	Sir John Trevor	Sir John Trevor	[untitled]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	as I find reported by Sir Nicholas Hyde, the Lord Justice of the K.B., which I with my hand transcribed, and have by me	John Bramston	Sir Nicholas Hyde	[untitled]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	he was required to answer to some of the articles, viz. the signing and subscribing the two opinions; but I thinck it ...	John Bramston	John Bramston	[untitled]	Unknown
	1600-1699	In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the...	John Bramston		Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. cap 5	Manuscript: Codex
	1800-1849	Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly --...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[paper on the Methodists]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Charles Robert Maturin	Bertram	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mr...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lady Byron	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Giambattista Casti	Novelle Amorose	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Giambattista Casti	Animali Parlante	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am stru...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1816, on advertisement falsely ascribing authorship of various poems to him: 'I enclose ...	John Polidori		advertisement for publications	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lady Caroline Lamb	Glenarvon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Benjamin Constant	Adolphe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remembe...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Edmund Ludlow	memoirs	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Margaret de Thomas	epitaph to Edmund Ludlow	Manuscript: tombstone epitaph
	1800-1849	Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a d...	John Cole		The European	Print: Serial / periodical, Magazine
	1800-1849	Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desu...	John Cole			Print: Book
	1800-1849	Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desu...	John Cole			Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Johann Christoph von Schiller	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	After tea procured 'The Hull Advertiser' and looked over the Advertisement of a Bookselling & Stationary Business to b...	John Cole		The Hull Advertiser	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murde...	George Gordon Lord Byron	anon	[inscription on rock]	Manuscript: inscriptionUnknown
	1800-1849	My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b...	John Cole	Salomon Gessner	The Death of Abel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b...	John Cole	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b...	John Cole	Alexander Pope	Homer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b...	John Cole	Cicero	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b...	John Cole		Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -...	George Gordon Lord Byron	anon	review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b...	John Cole	Samuel Johnson	Rasselas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -...	George Gordon Lord Byron	James Wedderburn Webster	Waterloo and Other Poems	Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -...	George Gordon Lord Byron	H. Gally Knight	Ilderim: A Syrian Tale	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Pamphleteer	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in '...	John Cole	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lucretia de Borgia	[unknown]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the corresponde...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia	letters	Manuscript: Letter, Unknown
	1800-1849	During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z...	John Cole	Aaron Hill	Zara	Print: Book
	1800-1849	During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z...	John Cole	John Home	Douglas: A Tragedy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Siste...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	"book treating of the Rhine"	Print: Book
	1800-1849	During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z...	John Cole	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	The Duenna	Print: Book
	1800-1849	During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z...	John Cole			Print: Book
	1800-1849	During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z...	John Cole			Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lady Caroline Lamb	Glenarvon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald."	Agnes Blanche Hemming	George MacDonald	Alec Forbes of Howglen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of...	George Gordon Lord Byron		["the Italian version of the French papers"]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	"Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'".	Agnes Blanche Hemming	George MacDonald	Alec Forbes of Howglen	Print: Book
		Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Quarterly Review	Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."	Agnes Blanche Hemming	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."	Agnes Blanche Hemming	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."	Agnes Blanche Hemming	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair...	Agnes Blanche Hemming	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webst...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	James Wedderburn Webster	Waterloo and Other Poems	Print: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ......	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Review of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other Poems	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points...	Magdalene Erskine	Anne Grant	Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, third edition.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,...	John Murray	George Gordon Lord Byron	travel journal	Manuscript: Codex
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 vol...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Voltaire	Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie Typographique	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between...	George Gordon Lord Byron	St. Paul	Epistles to Corinthians	Print: BookUnknown
		Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Can...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[newspaper]	Print: NewspaperUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the st...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Johan Christoph von Schiller	Geisterseher	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glen...	George Gordon Lord Byron		reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Childe Harold Canto III	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lord Holland	Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Confessions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extre...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Voltaire	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extr...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	Lallah Rookh	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They ar...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	Lallah Rookh (extracts)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	Lallah Rookh	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	[poems]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Alexander Pope	[poems]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am...	George Gordon Lord Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	[poems]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Biographia Literaria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Aeschylus	Prometheus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know wheth...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Richard Belgrave Hoppner	Elegy	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Rev. William Beloe	The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertain...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[Reviews]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.'	George Gordon Lord Byron		[obituary]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Stewart Rose	The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of Casti	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[Italian Gazettes]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --e...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Rob Roy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Cam Hobhouse	Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his revie...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Isaac Disraeli	The Literary Character	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Isaac Disraeli	The Literary Character	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's ...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Galignani's newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have see...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Galignani's Messenger	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Francis Hodgson	The Friends: a Poem	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Ludovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Count Vittorio Alfieri	[marginalia]	Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo...	Count Vittorio Alfieri	Ludovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rathe...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	n/a	n/a	Manuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Benvenuto da Imola	Commentary on Dante, Commedia	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read thi...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein	Corinne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At age twelve, recalled ploughboy John Ward, "I devoured - not read, that's too tame an expression - Robinson Crusoe,...	John Ward	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeu...	Neville Cardus	Charles Dickens	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeu...	Neville Cardus		The Athenaeum	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Robert Louis Stevenson	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Hans Christian Anderson	The Snow Queen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier		The Wreck of the Grosvenor	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	William Harrison Ainsworth	Old St Paul's	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Frederick Marryat	Mr Midshipman Easy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	George Eliot	The Mill on the Floss	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...	Daphne du Maurier	Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	Print: Book
	1500-1599	When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him...	John Carter	[n/a]	Old Testament	Print: Book
	1500-1599	When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him...	John Carter	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1500-1599 1600-1699	For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morni...	John Carter	[n/a]	Scriptures	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	Plutarch	[history]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	Charles Rollin	Ancient History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton		Ancient Universal History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie	Chronicles of Scotland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	Samuel Johnson	The Rambler	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	Robert Burns	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	Allan Ramsay	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...	Janet Hamilton	Robert Fergusson	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Countess Teresa Guiccioli	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	[novels]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	[poems]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	The Bride of Lammermoor	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	A Legend of Montrose	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the pa...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsch...	George Gordon Lord Byron		German periodicals	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to orde...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	Poems of the Late Thomas Little	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	Poems of the Late Thomas Little	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Marino Sanuto	"Italian history of the Doges of Venice"	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	"Siege of Zara"	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Pierre Antoine Daru	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Jean Charles Sismondi	History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshelves of an orphanage, which inc...	Janet Hitchman	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl...	Janet Hitchman	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl...	Janet Hitchman		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Henry Matthews	Diary of an Invalid	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl...	Janet Hitchman	W.G. Collingwood	The Life of Ruskin	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the 1920s Janet Htitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which inc...	Janet Hitchman	O.F. Walton	Christie's Old Organ	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl...	Janet Hitchman	O.F. Walton	A Peep Behind the Scenes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometim...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[books]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl...	Janet Hitchman	Hans Christian Anderson	The Little Match Girl	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish la...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the p...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Count Giulio Perticari	Dell'amor patrio di Dante	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Jane Waldie	Sketches Descriptive of Italy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquen...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Cam Hobhouse	[speeches]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile...	John Robert Clynes	William Shakespeare	Twelfth Night	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile...	John Robert Clynes	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile...	John Robert Clynes	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron		papers	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers men...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[poetry]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leo...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Guiseppe Bossi	Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci	Print: BookUnknown
	1850-1899	'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melvil...	Colonel Moncrieff	George T Chesney	Battle of Dorking	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord (3rd series)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"Reading - finished Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature which had been my Night lecture."	Lady Eleanor Butler		Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Xenophon	Retreat of the Ten Thousand	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- r...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Xenophon	Retreat of the Ten Thousand	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Francis Bacon	"apophthegms"	Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).
	1700-1799	" Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Metastasio	Betulia Liberata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Francis Bacon	"apophthegms"	Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders i...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Pierre Louis Ginguene	Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lord Holland	Lope de Vega	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and re...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Gentlemen. I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound f...	Francis Philips	George T Chesney	The Private Secretary	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Roscoe	The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as ...	Alex Innes Shand	George T Chesney	The Private Secretary	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series o...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord (2nd series)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Lugano Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned ov...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[books]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Rob Roy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Samuel Johnson	The Vanity of Human Wishes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -...	George Gordon Lord Byron		accounts	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Campbell	Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)	Print: BookUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Campbell	Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)	Print: BookUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...	George Gordon Lord Byron	various	Lives of poets	Print: BookUnknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Alexander Pope	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Dryden	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Samuel Johnson	unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Gray	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron		letters	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[Poets]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expres...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Campbell	Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Anon.	Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- ou...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Campbell	Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Milton	Sabrina Fair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guid...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Franz Grillparzer	Sappho	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Schiller	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Christoph Martin Wieland	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an in...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the ope...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Seneca	tragedies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Seneca	tragedies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Diodorus Siculus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going t...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	n/a	Javanese newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- d...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lom...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[various books]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Rea...	George Gordon Lord Byron		letters	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and d...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Corr...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Friedrich Melchior Grimm	Correspondence Litteraire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remark...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Friedrich Melchior Grimm	Correspondence Litteraire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.'	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lou...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I hav...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	History of Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].'	George Gordon Lord Byron	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	History of Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Co...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Friedrich Melchior Grimm	Correspondence Litteraire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Ed...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Lisle Bowles	various	Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	Louis Buonaparte	Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ....	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Friedrich Melchior Grimm	Correspondence Litteraire	Print: Book
		Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not wr...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- ...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Roman history	Unknown
	1600-1699	'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was...	John Bunyan	Martin Luther	Commentary on the Galations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Italian newspaper	Print: NewspaperUnknown
	1800-1849	In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on W...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Turner	Journal of a Tour in the Levant	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Walter Scott	[various novels]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in th...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Wilson Croker	review of John Keats, Endymion	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	Percy Bysshe Shelley	The Cenci	Unknown
	1700-1799	Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particu...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	Roman History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Gr...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Ruddiman	Latin Grammar	Print: Book
		Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Francis Hodgson	Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Francis Hodgson	Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... d...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Francis Hodgson	Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one i...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Douglas Kinnaird	letter (ie article?)	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & ful...	George Gordon Lord Byron	J. G. Lockhart	John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		Home Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	G.E. Farrow	The Wallypug of Why	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		Children's Encyclopaedia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply...	George Gordon Lord Byron	[N. N. A.] anon	[private letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		Hereward the Wake	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		[comics -unknown]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		Marriage on Two Hundred a Year	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to conti...	Countess Teresa Guiccioli	George Gordon Lord Byron	Don Juan (Cantos I and II)	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of ...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Ford Madox Ford	English Review	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	James Russell Lowell	The Vision of Sir Launfal	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Alfred Tennyson		Print: Book
		Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in Eng...	George Gordon Lord Byron	A. A. Watts	series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byron's works	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Wilson Croker	Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of t...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Richard Tully	Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) rela...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Octavius Gilchrist	pamphlets
	1700-1799	Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Books of Old Testament	Print: Book
		Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take...	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Monody on Garrick	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in...	William Wyndham Lord Grenville	unknown	Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ev...	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	[reviews]	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that i...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Aeschylus	Prometheus Bound	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Henry Fielding	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of y...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thomas Moore	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Galignani's Messenger	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	John Sheppard	[unknown]	Manuscript: Letter
		Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till t...	George Gordon Lord Byron		advertisement for "Mirandola"	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Robert Southey	letter	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical dra...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Oxoniensis [pseud.]	Remonstrance against Cain	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in w...	George Gordon Lord Byron		article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1822	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is t...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	n/a	[English newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the do...	George Gordon Lord Byron			Manuscript: epitaph
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impa...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Francis Jeffrey	unknown	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Wr...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subsc...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone throu...	Cassandra Austen	Jane Austen	First Impressions	Manuscript: Book in Manuscript
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): '...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Thompson	book of prescriptions	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in S...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Harriet Lee	The German's Tale	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): ...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Galignani's Messenger	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinar...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Count D'Orsay	Journal	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more wel...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau	Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... w...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Benjamin Constant	Adolphe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times."	George Gordon, Lord Byron	n/a	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Henri Beyle	Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Henri Beyle	Life of Haydn	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Henri Beyle	Life of Mozart	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Henri Beyle	essay on Racine and Shakespeare
	1800-1849	Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me wit...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Amadee Pichot	Essai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron par A[madee] P[icho]t	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	unknown	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some...	Caroline Clive	George Sand	La Mare au Diable	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some...	Caroline Clive	Jules Sandeau	La Chasse au Roman	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some...	Caroline Clive	Lord Mahon	The Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the Great	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some...	Caroline Clive		Memoirs of a Missionary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.'	Caroline Clive	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Lady Geraldine	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.'	Caroline Clive	Robert Browning	Bells and Pomegranates	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual'	Caroline Clive	Elizabeth Gaskell	Life of Charlotte Bronte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Revie...	George Gordon Lord Byron		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Ita...	George Gordon Lord Byron	John Cam Hobhouse	Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I hav...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Critical Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have...	George Gordon Lord Byron		The Eclectic Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many...	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Harness	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.'	George Gordon Lord Byron	Henry Gally Knight	Alashtar, an Arabian Tale	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de...	Kathleen Woodward	Thomas Babington Macaulay	History of England	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de...	Kathleen Woodward	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgri...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work en...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Galignani's Messenger	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Galignani's Messenger	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity...	George Gordon Lord Byron		review of Byron, The Age of Bronze	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an artic...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Hellenica Chronica	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent		[Freudian psychology]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent		[industrial administration]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent	[unknown]	[political history]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent	William Blake		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent	John Stuart Mill		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent	Beatrice and Sidney Webb		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent	Bertrand Russell	Essays in Scepticism	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge...	Frank Argent	Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler	The Decline of the West	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ...	Lennox Kerr	William Shakespeare	[works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ...	Lennox Kerr	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ...	Lennox Kerr	William Cobbett	A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 30 October 1802: '... [William Wordsworth and Stoddart] surprized us by their a...	?John Stoddart	Geoffrey Chaucer	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this...	Anne Lister	Jean Jaques Rousseau	Confessions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.'	Anne Lister	Jean Jaques Rousseau	Confessions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped i...	Anne Lister	Jean Jaques Rousseau	Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.'	Anne Lister	Jean Jaques Rousseau	Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one...	Anne Lister	Thomas Campbell	The Pleasures of Hope	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have la...	Anne Lister	Theodore Hook	Sayings and Doings	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several othe...	Anne Lister		Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.'	Anne Lister	Henry Moore	Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79...	Anne Lister	Mme Marie-Sophie Cottin	Amelie Mansfield	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a p...	Anne Lister	Chateaubriand	Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi
	1800-1849	[ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I rea...	Anne Lister		Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal Politique	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele	Anne Lister	Richard Polwhele	Sermons: a new volume	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as ...	Anne Lister	Lucian		Print: Book
	1800-1849	before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3.	Anne Lister		[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetr...	Anne Lister	Thomas Moore	The Loves of the Angels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I...	Anne Lister		Retrospective Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting t...	Anne Lister	Jane Marcet	Conversations on Natural Philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How...	Anne Lister	William Cowper	Retirement	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cot...	Anne Lister	Sophie Cottin	Amelie Mansfield	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read ...	Anne Lister	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye....	Anne Lister	J. B. Bernard	Theory of the Constitution Compared with its Pract	Print: Book
	1800-1849	What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words w...	Anne Lister	Edward Young	The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edit...	Anne Lister	Edward Young	The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woma...	Anne Lister	John Gregory	A Father's Legacy to His Daughters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the...	Anne Lister	Oliver Goldsmith	The Grecian History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with...	Anne Lister	Alexander Hunter	Georgical Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield	Anne Lister	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed m...	Anne Cust	Samuel Richardson	Pamela	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra...	Anne Lister	John Bonnycastle	An introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr
	1800-1849	Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra'	Anne Lister	Sophlocles	Electra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole.	Anne Lister	Joseph Hoole	sermons on several important practical subjects	Print: Book
	1800-1849	After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...].	Anne Lister		['Medical Mss']	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a pers...	Anne Lister		The Bay of Biscay	Unknown
	1800-1849	Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a pers...	Anne Lister		Said Eve unto Adam	Unknown
	1800-1849	In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 Jan...	Anne Lister	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gend...	Anne Lister	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheet...	Anne Lister		Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and poli	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to th...	Anne Lister	Colonel Francis Hall	Travels in France in 1818	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...]	Anne Lister		Annals of philosophy	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a ...	Anne Lister	Sir Walter Scott	The Monastery. A romance	Unknown
	1800-1849	from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read ...	Anne Lister	August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue	Leontine de Blondheim	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42m...	Anne Lister	Anthony Todd Thomson	A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's.	Anne Lister	Archibald Alison	Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerab...	Anne Lister	Desmosthenes	All the Orations of Demosthenes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto...	Anne Lister	William Emerson	The principle of mechanics	Unknown
	1800-1849	Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore.....	Anne Lister	Thomas Moore	Lallah Rookh or 'Review'	Unknown
	1800-1849	'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lect...	Anne Lister	Dr Scudamore	Lectures on physiology	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel consi...	Anne Lister	Thomas Leland	All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En	Unknown
	1800-1849	had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto...	Anne Lister	William Emerson	Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid	Anne Lister	Euclid	The Elements	Print: Book
	1800-1849	between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to...	Anne Lister	Euclid	The Elements	Print: Book
	1800-1849	All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermo...	Anne Lister		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinte...	Anne Lister	William Spence	Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Charles Dickens	Little Dorrit	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Rev. Richard H. Barham	The Ingoldsby Legends	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Sir Walter Scott	poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Henryk Sienkiewicz	Quo Vadis	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Rider Haggard	She	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Mrs Meek	Ellesmere	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Sir Walter Scott	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Benjamin Disraeli	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Edward Bulwer Lytton	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Percy Bysshe Shelley	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Samuel Johnson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Joseph Addison	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Richard Steele	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Oliver Goldsmith	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Ralph Waldo Emerson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	James Russell Lowell	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Bronte	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'... [William Robertson Nicoll] devoured even more newspapers than books [had grown up with clergyman father's library...	William Robertson Nicoll		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit...	Ben Tillett	Charles Darwin	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit...	Ben Tillett	Herbert Spencer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit...	Ben Tillett	Thomas Huxley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket fi...	Neville Cardus	Euripides	Medea	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."	George Bernard Shaw	Karl Marx	Das Kapital	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M...	Neville Cardus	J. M. Robertson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a cop...	Neville Cardus	Samuel Butler	Note Books	Print: Book
	1850-1899	On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Week...	[a Lancashire man] anon		The British Weekly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 t...	Anne Lister	Sophocles	Philoctetes
	1800-1849	Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a lit...	Anne Lister		The Leeds Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave...	Anne Lister		'2 or 3 old papers'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the ev...	Anne Lister	James Boswell	The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Sal...	Anne Lister	Cicero	On/the book of old age	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of...	Anne Lister		Monthly Magazine	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writ...	Anne Lister	Joseph Spence	Polymetics Abridged	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading Fr...	Anne Lister		'Paris guide'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs N...	Anne Lister		'Old Maids'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de...	Anne Lister		European Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my sp...	Anne Lister	David Henry Urquhart	Commentaries on classical learning	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme ...	Anne Lister	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Confessions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till ...	Anne Lister	Anne Lister	Journal	Manuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs
	1800-1849	In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. ...	Anne Lister	Caroline Lamb	Glenarvon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account o...	Anne Lister	John Stewart	Collections and recollections	Print: Book
	1800-1849	At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more partic...	Anne Lister		The art of employing time to the greatest advantage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Instit...	Anne Lister	John Ash	Grammatical Institutes	Print: Book
		Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen...	Anne Lister	By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton	Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10.	Anne Lister	Edward Young	The complaint, or night thoughts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, afte...	Anne Lister			Print: text printed on gravestonesUnknown
	1800-1849	Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron ...	Anne Lister		The Globe and Traveller	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account...	Anne Lister	Anne Lister	Journal	Manuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal
	1800-1849	'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics ...	Anne Lister	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 m...	Anne Lister	Anthony Todd Thomson	A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest t...	William Robertson Nicoll	Walter Scott	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.'	William Robertson Nicoll	Walter Scott	Rob Roy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze...	John Buchan	Walter Scott	Waverley Novels (12)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze...	John Buchan	Alexandre Dumas	Valois cycle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze...	John Buchan	Alexandre Dumas	D'Artagnan cycle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze...	John Buchan	Victor-Marie Hugo	Notre-Dame de Paris	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze...	John Buchan	Victor-Marie Hugo	Les Miserables	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze...	John Buchan	Honore de Balzac	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."'	Andrew Lang	Walter Scott	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth o...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral processio...	Newman Flower	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favou...	Ernest Raymond	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at,...	Anne Lutton		[French Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	As I grew up, I still read with avidity all I could lay my hands on, and was not at all fastidious. Unfortunately I g...	Anne Lutton		['novels']	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.'	Alan Alexander Milne	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language...	Anne Lutton		['Roman Classics']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on...	Anne Lutton	Virgil		Print: Book
	1800-1849	I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress.	Anne Lutton		['Greek Grammar']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the...	Anne Lutton		New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the...	Anne Lutton	Homer	The Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the...	Anne Lutton	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my tea...	Andrew Lang	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my tea...	Andrew Lang	Pinnock	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of M...	Anne Lutton	Maria Edgeworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849	My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of M...	Anne Lutton		[old-school novels]	Print: Book
		My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A...	Anne Lutton	John Adams	The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the Ci	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A...	Anne Lutton	William Robertson	The History of America	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of hi...	Gordon Hewart	Charles Dickens	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A...	Anne Lutton	J.J. Barthelemy	Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece,	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A...	Anne Lutton	Oliver Goldsmith	The History of England from the Earliest Times...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A...	Anne Lutton	John Wesley	Sermons on Several Occasions OR Three Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A...	Anne Lutton		The Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and th...	Neville Cardus	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1800-1849	It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered fro...	Anne Lutton	William Lilly	Lilly's Latin Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics an...	Anne Lutton	Isaac Barrow	Euclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books Compend	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...'	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Charles Dickens	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walte...	Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh	Charles Dickens	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great bless...	Anne Lutton	Hester Ann Rogers	Spiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the Experi	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduous...	Francis Herbert Bradley	Elinor Glyn	Halcyone	Manuscript: Codex
	1800-1849	My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what...	Anne Lutton		'Scriptures'	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on le...	Cardinal John Henry Newman	Anthony Trollope	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the reso...	A Young Ploughman		[series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up b	Manuscript: Sheet
		Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of ...	Henry James	Anthony Trollope	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...	Christiana Thompson	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...	Christiana Thompson	William Wordsworth	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...	Christiana Thompson	John Keats	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...	Christiana Thompson	Alfred Tennyson	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As late as the First World War, a Manchester boy could find an epiphany in an old volume of the Journal rescued from ...	'a Manchester boy'	n/a	Chambers's Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Robert Michael Ballantyne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	George Alfred Henty	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Richard Henry Dana	Two Years Before the Mast	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	David Livingstone	[Travels: perhaps, 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Fridtjof Nansen	[Travels - probably 'Farthest North']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Matthew Peary	[Travels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Robert Falcon Scott	[Travels in the Antarctic]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Wiliam Shakespeare	The Merchant of Venice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	William Shakespeare	Much Ado about Nothing	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Alexander Pope	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Alfred Lord Tennyson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	John Masefield	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Robert Louis Stevenson	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	A Christmas Carol	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Reade	The Cloister and the Hearth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	Major Barbara	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	John Bull's Other Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	The Doctor's Dilemma	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	Man and Superman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	The Devil's Disciple	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	You Never Can Tell	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	Socialism and Superior Brains	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	Fabian Essays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	An Unsocial Socialist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	The Irrational Knot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	John Galsworthy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Herbert George Wells	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Enoch Arnold Bennett	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Sidney and Beatrice Webb	Industrial Democracy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Oliver Joseph Lodge	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Edward Carpenter	Towards Democracy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Edward Carpenter	The Intermediate Sex	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	John Atkinson Hobson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Alfred Marshall	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Plato	The Republic	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea...	questionaire respondent	Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree	Poverty, A Study of Town Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea...	questionaire respondent	[unknown]	[basic economics textbook]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea...	questionaire respondent	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	William Shakespeare	[works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Robert Burns	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Walter Scott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	anon	The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	[unknown]	Print: Book
		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	[unknown]	[various history and biography]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...	questionaire respondent	Mark Twain	The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...	questionaire respondent	Emmusska, Baroness Orczy	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...	questionaire respondent	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Richard Doddridge Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Louisa May Alcott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	David Livingstone	[Travels, probably 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Charles Darwin	[probably 'The Voyage of the Beagle']	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	Robert Louis Stevenson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	William Morris	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris...	Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell	Francis Turner Palgrave	Golden Treasury of English Song and Lyrics	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris...	Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris...	Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell, later Baron Shinwell	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At la...	Stan Dickens	[anon]	Aristotle's Masterpiece	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A news...	Allen Clark	[unknown]	[physiology textbooks]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A news...	Allen Clarke	Francois Rabelais	Gargantua and Pantagruel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by ...	Edna Bold	[unknown]	[medical book]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by ...	Edna Bold	John Foxe	Foxe's Book of Martyrs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Mark Twain	Tom Sawyer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Mark Twain	Huckleberry Finn	Print: Book
	1900-1945	That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was a...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Washington Irving	Life of Columbus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Nicholas Soyer	The Art of Paper Bag Cookery	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Marcus Aurelius	The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Hall Caine	The Bondman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. Th...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Marie Corelli	Free Opinions	Print: Book, Newspaper
	1900-1945	I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Marie Corelli	Master Christain	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Shakespeare	Shakespeare's Complete Works	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Cullen Bryant	Thanatopsis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Ralph Waldo Trine	In Tune with the Infinite	Print: Book
	1850-1899	In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "...	Herbert Hensley Henson	Robert Browning	A Death in the Desert	Unknown
	1850-1899	'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 18...	Grant Duff	John Ruskin	Praeterita	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bour...	Henry James	Rudyard Kipling	McAndrew's Hymn	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...	Algernon Swinburne	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...	Algernon Swinburne	Charles Lamb	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...	Algernon Swinburne	Charles Reade	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...	Algernon Swinburne	William Makepeace Thackeray	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	"In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His tar...	Algernon Swinburne	Algernon Swinburne	Les Noyades
	1850-1899	'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of t...	Algernon Swinburne	Algernon Swinburne	unknown	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Professor Gardiner, in the 2nd volume of his "Great Civil War", has given so much prominence to the character and act...	Jennet Pryce	Gardiner	Great Civil War	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...[Newman] Flower as a boy read and idolized Hardy ...'	Newman Flower	Thomas Hardy	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
		[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any ...	Anon	Peter Cunningham	Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonson	Manuscript: Pamphlet
		[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified, but the same as that on MS about Tonson)]: Top LH corner, in penci...	Anon		A Proposal	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	'Sir, I have heard with great regret that you are the author of that gross personal libel which appeared in the Quarte...	John Galt	Thomas Dunham Whitaker	Galt's Life of Cardinal Wolsey	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disa...	Arnold Bennett	Herbert Spencer	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...	Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland	[unknown]	[reports on education in Prussia]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...	Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland	Thomas Huxley	Life	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...	Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...	Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland	[unknown]	[romantic fiction]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed...	Catherine Hutton		Review of The Miser Married	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partri...	Millicent Duchess of Sutherland	John Ruskin	Sesame and Lilies	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partri...	Millicent Duchess of Sutherland	Marie Corelli	Barabbas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed...	Catherine Hutton		Review of The Miser Married	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Mrs Brooke		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt]...	Francis Thompson		The Globe	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Catherine Hutton	The Welsh Mountaineer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Catherine Hutton	Oakwood Hall	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ...	Catherine Hutton	Catherine Hutton	The Miser Married	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)'	Constance Smedley	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	Print: Book
	1900-1945	It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bett...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	The Bettesworth Book	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.'	Algernon Cecil		Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Quarterly Review	Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and san...	John Bailey		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English n...	Donald Brown		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I reg...	Valentine Chirol		Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in the Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular.	John Buchan	Arnold Bennett	The Man from the North	Manuscript: Sheet, proofs
	1850-1899	He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into ...	Arnold Bennett	Edmund de Goncourt	Journals	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, wh...	John Ruskin	Stephane-Felicite de Genlis		Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both bec...	John Ruskin	Stephane-Felicite de Genlis	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'.	John Ruskin	Maria Edgeworth	Helen	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on...	Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford	John Ruskin	The Political Economy of Art	Print: Book
		Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the stor...	John Ruskin		Arabian Nights	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's las...	John Ruskin	Lord John Russell		Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [G...	John Ruskin		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of...	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Unknown
	1850-1899	Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lip...	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death ...	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	Richard II	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walte...	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote...	Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford	John Ruskin	Cestus of Aglaia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junctio...	John Ruskin	Horace Benedict de Saussure	Voyages dans les Alpes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to...	Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford	John Ruskin	Sesame and Lilies	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the s...	Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford	John Ruskin	Crown of Wild Olives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation ...	Anna Letitia Barbauld	William Paley	Natural Theology	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Davila	? [ History of the French Civil Wars]	Unknown
	1700-1799	" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Davila	? [ History of the French Civil Wars]	Unknown
	1850-1899	Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ...	Constance Smedley	Henry David Thoreau	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ...	Constance Smedley	Ralph Waldo Emerson	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again unde...	Lady Eleanor Butler	Charlotte Smith	Emmeline	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was...	Constance Smedley	James Russell Lowell		Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	" reading Rousseau to my Sally."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Unknown
	1700-1799	" From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Unknown
	1700-1799	" From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally.	Lady Eleanor Butler	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Unknown
	1700-1799	" I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa a...	Lady Eleanor Butler	Samuel Richardson	The Rambler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	" Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Petrarch	Sonatto di Petrarca	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Finished The Tatler"	Lady Eleanor Butler		The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	" began the Spectator"	Lady Eleanor Butler		The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	" Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertine...	Lady Eleanor Butler	Madame de Maintenon	Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Madame de Maintenon	Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" finished Swinburne's Travel Through Spain to My Love."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Swinburne	Travels through Spain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us.	Lady Eleanor Butler	A.R. Lesage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse."	Lady Eleanor Butler		Tab. de la Suisse	Unknown
	1700-1799	Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Madame de Metterniche	Memoires	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere		Print: Book
	1700-1799	Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Corneille	Theatro du Grand Corneilles	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Racine	Theatro et oevres de Racine	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Dante	La Divina Commedia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Pietro Metastasio	opera (16 Tom)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Gilpin	Northern Tour	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Thomas Gray	Works	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisi...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry James	What Maisie Knew	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... '...	Henry James	H. Rider Haggard	She	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Ly...	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests ...	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Florence L. Barclay	The Rosary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's T...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	The King's Tragedy	Unknown
	1850-1899	Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver wan...	Anna Blunden	John Ruskin	The Elements of Drawing	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many ...	John Ruskin	Aubrey Thomas de Vere		Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ...	John Ruskin	Edmund Spencer	The Faerie Queen	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ...	Anna Blunden	Edmund Spencer	The Faerie Queen	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browining	Aurora Leigh	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from...	Anna Blunden	Elizabeth Barrett Browining	Aurora Leigh	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good."	John Ruskin	John Burnet	[on composition]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the ti...	Anna Blunden	John Ruskin	Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds
	1850-1899	Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - F...	John Ruskin	Robert Browning	Men and Women	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; ...	John Heaton	John Ruskin	The Seven Lamps of Architecture	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H53, January 1857 "But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he ...	John Ruskin	Hans Christian Andersen	Fairy legends and Tales	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her ...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poems, including "Drama of Exile"	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Ros...	John Ruskin	Dante Alighieri	Inferno	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is n...	John Ruskin	Plato	Death of Socrates	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Pa...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Robert Browning	Men and Women	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree wi...	John Ruskin		The Athenaeum	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Mod...	Ellen Heaton	John Ruskin	Modern Painters I and II	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - wh...	John Ruskin	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Destruction of Sennacherib	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."	John Ruskin	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - ...	John Ruskin	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	The Burden of Nineveh	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be usel...	John Ruskin	Dante Alighieri		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the towe...	Ellen Heaton	John Ruskin	Modern Painters IV	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volu...	Ellen Heaton	John Ruskin	Modern Painters III	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butter...	John Ruskin	Ellen Heaton	Tales	Manuscript: Unpublished short tales
	1850-1899	"You say you have been reading some French novels lately."	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.		[Some French novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in th...	Francis Wilson			Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeate...	William Edmonstoune Ayton	William Edmonstoune Ayton	The Execution of Montrose	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father."	Ann Thackeray	George Barnett Smith	The Works of Thackeray	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a cop...	Francis Jeffrey	Margaret Oliphant	Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerab...	Frank Oliphant	Anthony Trollope		Print: Book
	1900-1945	John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular...	John Partridge		The Daily Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for author...	Edmund Gosse		Lesson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall...	Newman Flower	Hall Caine	The Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I c...	Arnold Bennett	Marie Corelli	? The Sorrows of Satan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & t...	Katherine Mansfield	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that li...	Katherine Mansfield	Louis Vintras	The Silver Net	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was ...	Andrew Lang	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners...	Katherine Mansfield			Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and con...	Queen Victoria	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do ple...	Katherine Mansfield	E.F. Benson	Sheaves	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'	Katherine Mansfield	Stendhal		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'	Katherine Mansfield	Stendhal		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter toget...	Queen Victoria	Edna Lyall	Donovan: A Modern Englishman	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter toget...	Princess Beatrice	Edna Lyall	We Two	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of ...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	Venus and Adonis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.	Katherine Mansfield	John Middleton Murry	The Loneliness of Leon Bloy	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.	Katherine Mansfield	John Middleton Murry	The Loneliness of Leon Bloy	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	"[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in le...	Henry James	George Meredith	Lord Ormont and his Aminta	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my m...	Katherine Mansfield	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the...	Katherine Mansfield	Virginia Woolf	Night and Day	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbe...	Katherine Mansfield	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.'	Katherine Mansfield		Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after...	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	George Meredith	Modern Love	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very inter...	Katherine Mansfield	Henry James	Confidence	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On ...	Lady Cynthia Asquith	George Meredith	The Egoist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "...	Katherine Mansfield	Nietzsche		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'.	Katherine Mansfield	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.	Katherine Mansfield			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.	Katherine Mansfield		[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't...	Katherine Mansfield	Colette	L'Entrave	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't...	Katherine Mansfield	Colette	L'Entrave	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and hum...	Katherine Mansfield	William Temple	Miscellanea	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" ...	Katherine Mansfield	Dorothy Wordsworth	Journal	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts ...	Katherine Mansfield	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'.	Katherine Mansfield			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'.	Katherine Mansfield	Dostoevsky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t...	Katherine Mansfield	Octave Mirbeau		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t...	Katherine Mansfield	Octave Mirbeau		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speec...	Katherine Mansfield	Lloyd George		Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But i...	Katherine Mansfield	E.M. Forster	Howard's End	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva ...	Katherine Mansfield	Anton Chekhov	Geneva	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva ...	Katherine Mansfield	Anton Chekhov	Hamilton	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed".	Katherine Mansfield	Dostoevsky	The Idiot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed".	Katherine Mansfield	Dostoevsky	The Possessed	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in ...	Katherine Mansfield	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class gi...	John Edmonds	Charles Reade	The Cloister and the Hearth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ...	Jennie Lee	Marie Stopes	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ...	Jennie Lee	Havelock Ellis	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ...	Jennie Lee	Sigmund Freud		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.'	Arnold Bennett	Honore de Balzac		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledge...	Arnold Bennett	Gaboriau	[detective fiction]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 49 (late November 1856) ?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Aurora Leigh	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthu...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Aurora Leigh	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860) ?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is ...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poems before Congress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly o...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poems before Congress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861) ?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?	John Ruskin	William Morris	The Defence of Guenevere	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho...	John Ruskin	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho...	John Ruskin	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho...	John Ruskin	Johann von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846 ?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper o...	Ellen Heaton	Rebecca Hey	The Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the Woods (1837)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...'	King Kalakava	Robert Louis Stevenson		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...'	Alan Alexander Milne	Norman Angell	The Great Illusion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. F...	Edward Morgan Forster	Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher	A School History of England	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she rea...	Kathleen Bruce	H. G. Wells	God the Invisible King	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son ....	Florence Murray	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.'	Arnold Bennett		The Bible	Print: Book
		'In 1970, on radio, Field Marshal Montgomery said that reading "When it was Dark" [1903] had been a turning point in h...	Bernard Law Montgomery	Guy Thorne	When it was Dark	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'	George Bernard Shaw	St Paul	Epistles	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'	George Bernard Shaw		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'	George Bernard Shaw	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1...	George Bernard Shaw	Henry James	The Saloon	Unknown
	1850-1899	" ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe."	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Charlotte M. Yonge	The Heir of Redclyffe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real...	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	John Henry Newman	Loss and Gain	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was publishe...	Janet Courtney	J. Henry Shorthouse	John Inglesant	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be...	Arnold Bennett	Edith Wharton	The House of Mirth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Milner	Ecclesiastical History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'.	Thomas Babington Macaulay		Xenophon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dis...	Virginia Woolf	Mrs Humphry Ward		Print: Book
	1800-1849	In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Virgil		Print: Book
	1800-1849	The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Fenelon	Dialogues of the Dead	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and wit...	Thomas Babington Macaulay		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay			Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Boccacio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from t...	Thomas Babington Macaulay			Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	"It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a...	Edmund Gosse	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of ...	Edmund Gosse	William Shakespeare	Much Ado about Nothing	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive or...	Edmund Gosse		Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus ...	Edmund Gosse	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permane...	Edmund Gosse	Ben Jonson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanen...	Edmund Gosse	Christopher Marlowe	Hero and Leander	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my ste...	Edmund Gosse	Christopher Marlowe	Hero and Leander	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession ent...	Edmund Gosse	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1850-1899	" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely ...	Edmund Gosse	John Keats		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Que...	Edmund Gosse	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Queen Mab	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for t...	Edmund Gosse	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk o...	Edmund Gosse	Robert Southey	Works (poetical?)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of...	Edmund Gosse	F.T Palgrave	The Golden Treasury	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and t...	Edmund Gosse		Greek New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since th...	Edmund Gosse	Thomas Carlyle		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -s...	Edmund Gosse	John Ruskin		Print: Book
	1600-1699	The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i...	John Taylor	Thomas More	Utopia	Print: Book
	1600-1699	The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i...	John Taylor	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1600-1699	The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i...	John Taylor	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Essays	Print: Book
	1600-1699	The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i...	John Taylor	Miguel de Cervantes	probably Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley...	Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell)	William Paley	View of the Evidences of Christianity	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley...	Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell)	Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel	Riddle of the Universe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley...	Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell)	Herbert Spencer	The Study of Sociology	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley...	Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell)	Marcus Aurelius	Meditations	Print: Book
	1900-1945	The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at...	Arnold Wesker	Leo Tolstoy		Print: Book
	1900-1945	The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at...	Arnold Wesker	Maxim Gorky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at...	Arnold Wesker	Jack London		Print: Book
	1900-1945	The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at...	Arnold Wesker	Sinclair Lewis		Print: Book
	1900-1945	The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at...	Arnold Wesker	Honore de Balzac		Print: Book
	1900-1945	The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at...	Arnold Wesker	Guy de Maupassant		Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmont...	John Opie	Holcroft	Theatrical recorder	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...	Wil John Edwards	Edward Gibbon	presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...	Wil John Edwards	Thomas Hardy		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...	Wil John Edwards	Algernon Charles Swinburne		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...	Wil John Edwards	George Meredith		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...	Wil John Edwards	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...	Wil John Edwards		Clarion (literary pages)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh...	John Brown	Karl Marx		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh...	John Brown	George Bernard Shaw		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh...	John Brown	Friedrich Engels		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive...	John Allaway	Alfred Marshall		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive...	John Allaway	J.A. Hobson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	"The habits and tastes of Mr Opie were, happily, very inexpensive... [he and his wife] spent the evening hours in conv...	John Opie		[various books, fiction in particular]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive...	John Allaway	Henry George		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive...	John Allaway	John Maynard Keynes		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive...	John Allaway	Hugh Dalton		Print: Book
	1700-1799	"Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves...	John Pitchford	Thomas Grey	Perigrinus Porteous	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves...	John Pitchford	Thomas Grey	Elegy written in a Country Churchyard	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hu...	Ifan Edwards	Karl Marx	Das Kapital	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t...	Stan (acquaintance of George Scott)	Karl Marx	Das Kapital	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t...	Stan (acquaintance of George Scott)		Straight and Crooked Thinking	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837 A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] work...	Branwell Bronte	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	Eugene Aram	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...	Ewan McColl	Charles Darwin	[all works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...	Ewan McColl	Fyodor Dostoevsky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...	Ewan McColl	Honore de Balzac	The Human Comedy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...	Ewan McColl	Immanuel Kant	Critique of Pure Reason	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...	Ewan McColl		The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided Figure	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...	Ewan McColl	Nikolai Gogol	The Overcoat	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...	Ewan McColl	Nikolai Gogol	The Nose	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...	Ewan McColl	Nikolai Gogol	The Madman's Diary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.	Ewan McColl	Friedrich Engels	The Peasant War in Germany	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.	Ewan McColl	Friedrich Engels	The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Branwell Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 27 June 1840: 'I have ... striven to translate 2 books [of Horace] ... the first...	Patrick Branwell Bronte	Horace		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Although mainly an outdoor boy Rider began to read several popular romances of the day...: "I loved those books that ...	Henry Rider Haggard	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma...	Henry Rider Haggard	Anon	The Arabian Nights	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma...	Henry Rider Haggard	Alexandre Dumas (pere)	The Three Musketeers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma...	Henry Rider Haggard	Edgar Allan Poe		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma...	Henry Rider Haggard	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma...	Henry Rider Haggard	Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton	The Coming Race	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma...	Henry Rider Haggard	Thomas Babington Macaulay		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Thomas Carlyle		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	George Bernard Shaw		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Herbert George Wells		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	John Galsworthy		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Arnold Bennett		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Henrik Ibsen	Ghosts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Henrik Ibsen	A Doll's House	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Benjamin Disraeli	Sybil	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Elizabeth Gaskell	Mary Barton	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Thomas Hardy	Under the Greenwood Tree	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Alfred Lord Tennyson	The Princess	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Walt Whitman		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Robert Burns		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Elizabeth Barrett Browning		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	George Eliot		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin)		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Charlotte /Emily/ Anne Bronte		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Victor Hugo	Les Miserables	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...	Helen Crawfurd	Victor Hugo	Nore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the...	John Gibson Lockhart	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favour of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the...	Benjamin Franklin		The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favor of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the ...	Benjamin Franklin		The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R...	John Clare		Cinderella	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R...	John Clare		Little Red Riding Hood	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R...	John Clare		Jack and the Beanstalk	Print: Book
	1600-1699	At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a vet...	John Pory	Anon	Charter of Virginia Assembly	Unknown
	1600-1699	" ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' tha...	anon		Code of Laws 1648	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	[Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and M...	Lionel Fraser	Frank Richards	[stories in the Magnet]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	[Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and M...	Lionel Fraser	Frank Richards	[stories in the Gem]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a wor...	Bryan Forbes	Frank Richards	[stories in the Gem]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a wor...	Bryan Forbes	Frank Richards	[stories in the Magnet]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Angela Brazil inspired Kathleen Betterton (whose father operated a lift in the London Underground) to ascend the scho...	Kathleen Betterton	Angela Brazil	[school stories]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Frank Richards	[school stories in the Gem]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Frank Richards	[school stories in the Magnet]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentime...	Frances Burney	Laurence Sterne	A Sentimental Journey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney		novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney	Homer		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney		ancient history	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney			Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ...	Frances Burney	Elizabeth and Richard Griffith	A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ...	Frances Burney	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ...	Frances Burney	Samuel Johnson	Rasselas	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Alexander Pope	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Alexander Pope	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	David Hume	The History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Nathaniel Hooke	Roman History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Conyers Middleton	Life of Cicero	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Denis Diderot	treatise on music	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Frances Burney to Hester Thrale, 22 January 1781, on reading account of Thrale's apperance at court on 18 January 1781...	Frances Burney		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impression...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Frances Burney	Cecilia	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783): 'I stood, a favouring muse,...	Frances Burney	Samuel Hoole	Aurelia
	1700-1799	'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...'	The Hon. Stephen Digby	William Falconer	The Shipwreck	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794).	Frances Burney	Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd...	Frances Burney	Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein
	1800-1849	'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd...	Frances Burney	Catherine Talbot
	1800-1849	'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd...	Frances Burney	Hester Chapone		Unknown
	1800-1849	'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When ...	Frances Burney	Charles Burney	Memoirs	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ...	Frances Burney	Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ...	Frances Burney	Ann Radcliffe	The Italian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... Anne Thackeray ... discovered ... [Burney's Diary and Letters] in her father's library and felt inspired to becom...	Anne Thackeray	Frances Burney	The Diary and Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh...	Aneurin Bevan	n/a	The Magnet	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh...	Aneurin Bevan	n/a	The Gem	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh...	Aneurin Bevan	H. Rider Haggard	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh...	Aneurin Bevan	William Le Queux	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh...	Aneurin Bevan	John Buchan	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh...	Aneurin Bevan	Phillips Oppenheim	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his con...	Arnold Bennett	Guy de Maupassant	Bel-Ami	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been don...	Arnold Bennett	Guy de Maupassant	Une Vie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same ...	Alexander Somerville	George Anson	A Voyage Round the World	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in P...	Arnold Bennett	Joris Karl Huysmans	Les Soeurs Vatards	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Clare...	Arnold Bennett	Jules Claretie	L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sour...	Arnold Bennett	unknown	Victoria History of the Potteries	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	The Honeymoon	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and ar...	Arnold Bennett	Pauline Smith	The Little Karoo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Bennett had read "Ann Veronica", which Wells had sent him that October with an inscription "The Young Mistress's Tale...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Ann Veronica	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'.	Arnold Bennett	William Shaw	When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,...	Florence Barclay	Hans Christian Andersen	Fairy Tales	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,...	Florence Barclay	Frances Hodgson Burnett	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,...	Florence Barclay	Charlotte Mary Yonge	The Little Duke	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,...	Florence Barclay	Walter Scott		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of...	Frances Mary Buss
	1900-1945	Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began t...	Enid Starkie		French fiction	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener ...	Ellen Clifford			Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig...	Henry Maynard	Monier Williams	work/s on Eastern religions	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig...	Henry Maynard	William Law		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig...	Henry Maynard	Jacob Boehme		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...	Constance Maynard	John Milton	Sonnets	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...	Constance Maynard	William Cowper	poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...	Constance Maynard	Washington Irving	Orations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...	Constance Maynard	Alfred Tennyson	poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she re...	Eleanor Farjeon	Alexandre Dumas	The Three Musketeers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que...	Florence White	Susan Warner	The Wide, Wide World	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que...	Florence White	Susan Warner	Queechy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que...	Florence White	Maria Charlesworth	Ministering Children	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ...	Joan Evans	Alfred Tennyson	poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ...	Joan Evans	Matthew Arnold	poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who live...	Susan Mitchell	George Moore	A Mummer's Wife	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'	Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower		poetry
	1850-1899	' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature canno...	Lady Frances Balfour	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ...	Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick		science books	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ...	Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick		medical journals	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ...	Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ...	Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."	Angela Brazil	John Foxe	Book of Martyrs
	1900-1945	'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]'	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	New Machiavelli, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audienc...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	Milestones	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.'	Arnold Bennett	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad wom...	Annabel Huth Jackson	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she ...	Christine Longford	Susan Warner	The Wide, Wide World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	John Milton	Complete poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Dante Alighieri	Divina Commedia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Torquato Tasso	Gerusalemme Liberata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Homer	The Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Virgil	The Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Lucan	Pharsalia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Aeschylus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Sophocles		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Euripedes		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Ovid		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Tacitus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Xenophon		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Herodotus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Thucydides		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe	Anquetil du Perron	Zend Avesta	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe	Sir William Jones	Institutes of Menu	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe	Diogenes Laertius		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe		translated ancient philosophical texts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe		Biographical Dictionary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Edward Gibbon		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	David Hume		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Tindal		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Collins		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Voltaire		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Marcus Aurelius		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Seneca		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Epictetus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Plutarch	Moralia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Xenophon	Memorabilia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Plato		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading ...	Anne Jemima Clough	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Corsair	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ...	Joan Evans	Salomon Reinach	Orpheus:A History of Religions	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ...	Joan Evans	Jane Harrison	Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ...	Joan Evans	Farnell	Cults of the Greek States	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ...	Joan Evans	Sir James George Frazer	The Golden Bough	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't...	Marianne Farningham		poem on family Bible	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't...	Marianne Farningham	Felicia Hemans	The Better Land	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union'...	Marianne Farningham		Sunday School Union magazines	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines...	Frances Ridley Havergal	William Cowper		Print: Unknown
		"Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though s...	Enid Starkie	Francis Thompson	The Hound of Heaven	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Jane Ellen Harrison, in Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925) 11-12: "'Until I met Aunt Glegg in the Mill on the Fl...	Jane Ellen Harrison	George Eliot	The Mill on the Floss	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h...	anon	Charles Dickens	novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h...	anon	George Eliot	novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse...	Hannah Mitchell		theological works	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse...	Hannah Mitchell		early Methodist magazines	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse...	Hannah Mitchell		cookery books	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse...	Hannah Mitchell		crime/horror fiction	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse...	Hannah Mitchell	Horace Walpole	The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although...	Hannah Mitchell	William Wordsworth	poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although...	Hannah Mitchell		local newspaper (including verse)	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by book...	Hannah Mitchell		library books	Print: Book
	1850-1899	While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by book...	Hannah Mitchell		bookstall stock	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which app...	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	Walter Besant	Children of Gibeon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" ... it was reading a Life of Mazzini, with its description of how he founded the 'Young Italy' Society, in which eac...	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence		Life of Mazzini	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ...	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	William Morris	poetry	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ...	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	Carpenter	poetry	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ...	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	Walt Whitman	poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Annabel Huth Jackson ... [became] a 'convinced feminist' after reading an article on the white slave trade in th War ...	Annabel Huth Jackson		The War Cry	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that "'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an Afri...	anon	Olive Schreiner	The Story of an African Farm	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Murray (of the Hand-Books) has lately put forward a work which I have found very full of entertaining reading: a co...	Henry James		[a guidebook to the areas round London]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ...	Emmeline Pankhurst	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ...	Emmeline Pankhurst	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ...	Emmeline Pankhurst		The Holy War	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ...	Emmeline Pankhurst	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ...	Emmeline Pankhurst	Thomas Carlyle	The French Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ...	Emmeline Pankhurst		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		feminist writings	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		works on political science	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		works on economics	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		works on psychology	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		works in anthropology	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: e...	Viscountess Rhondda	Havelock Ellis	The Psychology of Sex	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Florence Spong recounted in August 1909: 'As to breaking my [prison] cell window, I told them I only followed the adv...	Florence Spong		A Healthy Home, and How to Keep It	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."	General Drummond	Jane Porter	The Scottish Chiefs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."	General Drummond	Samuel Smiles	LIfe and Labour	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone ...	Viscountess Rhondda	Edna Lyall	novels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..."	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	William Shakespeare	History plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hur...	Henry Mackenzie	Dr John Gregory	A Father's Legacy to his Daughters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'V.S. Pritchett's "popular educator" was the literary section of the Christian Science Monitor: "It was imbued with th...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	n/a	Christian Science Monitor	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh...	Vernon Scannell	Siegfried Sassoon	[war poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh...	Vernon Scannell	Wilfred Owen	[war poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh...	Vernon Scannell	Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh...	Vernon Scannell	Robert Graves	Goodbye to All That	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh...	Vernon Scannell	Edmund Blunden	Undertones of War	Print: Book
	1700-1799	One little book that my father had given me the last time he was at home, was for a long time afterwards my inseparabl...	Ellen Weeton		['A storybook']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The only gratification I ever sought was to be permitted to sit quietly in my brother's room, with a book. That room w...	Ellen Weeton		[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness ...	Ellen Weeton		['Psalms']	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor]	Ellen Weeton	Anne Louise Stael-Holstein	Corinna, or Italy	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear...	Ellen Weeton	James Boswell	The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining c...	Ellen Weeton		[books on carving]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Miss R. staid 2 or 3 days withme; the rest of the time I was entirely alone, spending the time chiefly in reading and ...	Ellen Weeton		[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Books lately read' Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, 4 vols. It has been said of these letters... The first an...	Ellen Weeton	Philip Dormer Stanhope	Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Phili	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and th...	Ellen Weeton		[songs and music]	Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	When I begin to enumerate the works I have read since I came to Dove's-Nest, I feel surprised that I should have read ...	Ellen Weeton		[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol. The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fa...	Ellen Weeton	John Corry	A Satirical View of London at the Commencement of	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Windermere: A Novel in 2 vols This is below Mediocrity; the title [title is underlined]induced me to read it; and with...	Ellen Weeton	By the Editor of the Letters of Maria	Windermere. A Novel	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letters on Mythology Addressed to a Lady by R. Morgan, 1 vol. A humourous and entertaining production, written in a li...	Ellen Weeton	R Morgan	Letters on Mythology	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Lessons of a Governess to her Pupils by Madame de Silery- Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) 3 vols. For further re...	Ellen Weeton	Stephanie de Genlis Brulart	Lessons of a Governess to Her Pupils	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Lake of Killarney, by A.M. Porter. 3 vols. Rose de Blaguere, a foundling, is the heroine of the tale. Mr Clermont the...	Ellen Weeton	Anna Maria Porter	Lake of Killarney	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	The Cottagers of Glenburnie. 1 vol. by Miss Hamilton. A little tale tending to shew the folly of adhering to old custo...	Ellen Weeton	Miss Elizabeth Hamilton	The Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the Farmer	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical ...	Ellen Weeton	John Corry	The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	An Essay on Old Maids. 3 vols. Has my approbation, although, or because, I am an Old Maid. What is the public opinion...	Ellen Weeton	W Hayley	A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A...	Ellen Weeton	David Brewster	The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Conducted by D. Brews	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op...	John Paton	n/a	Boys' Friend	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op...	John Paton	John Lothrop Motley	The Rise of the Dutch Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op...	John Paton	John Richard Green	[history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op...	John Paton	Thomas Babington Macaulay	[probably The History of England from the Accession of James II]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op...	John Paton	William Hickling Prescott	[Spanish history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op...	John Paton	Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to...	Ben Brierley		[penny horror stories]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to...	Ben Brierley		[penny fairy stories]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to...	Ben Brierley	Robert Burns		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to...	Ben Brierley	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep...	Edwin Whitlock	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep...	Edwin Whitlock	[unknown]	[Sunday School prize books]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep...	Edwin Whitlock	n/a	POst Office Directory, 1867	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	Walter Scott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	Edward George, Earl Bulwer Lytton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	Ellen Wood	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	[anon]	The Holy War	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	[unknown]	[religious magazines]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	anon	The Adventures of a Penny	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...	Edwin Whitlock	anon	Cassell's History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excer...	John Scott	Anne-Louise-Germaine de Stael	Considerations sur les Principaux Evenements de la	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We think he is mistaken in every respect. His work does not teach the human heart, but insults it...His precepts are ...	John Scott	Percy Bysshe Shelley	The Cenci	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think that the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair t...	John Macrone	Charles Dickens	The Black Veil	Print: Unknown
	1450-1499	Susan Schibanoff, "Taking the Gold out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman": "In 1473, Anthony Woodville, Earl Riv...	Anthony Woodville Earl Rivers		Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum	Unknown
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading...	Mary Ann Evans	Walter Scott		Print: Book
		Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alco...	Melvyn Bragg	Louisa May Alcott	Jo's Boys	Print: Book
		Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alco...	Melvyn Bragg	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	Print: Book
		David Bleich, "Gender Interests in Reading and Language": "I first 'understood' Wordsworth when I heard his poetry rea...	Jonathan Wordsworth	William Wordsworth	poetry	Unknown
	1800-1849	Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cr...	John Drummond Erskine	Adam Dickson	An essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debt	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading...	anon	George Eiiot	Adam Bede	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time: "'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intox...	anon	Thomas Babington Macaulay	History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"Anthony Errington, a Tyneside wagonway wright, sat down in 1823 to write out his life history ... After brief account...	Anthony Errington			Print: tombstone epitaphs
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without l...	Alexander Somerville	Anson	Voyage Round the World	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t...	Alexander Somerville			Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t...	Alexander Somerville			Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t...	Alexander Somerville			Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni...	John Clare		Cinderella	Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni...	John Clare		Little Red Riding Hood	Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni...	John Clare		Jack and the Beanstalk	Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni...	John Clare		Zig Zag	Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni...	John Clare		Prince Cherry	Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
	1800-1849	'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where...	[A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon	William Cobbett	Political Register	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called...	'The Parson'	Thomas Secker	Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The following written by Dr Worthington appeared in the Morning Chronicle. Epistle from Tom Cribb to Big Ben concerni...	Benjamin Newton	n/a	The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of Wellington said to be written by B.Constant 'un heros froid et med...	Benjamin Newton	John Hobhouse	The substance of some letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of wellington said to be written by B.Constant "un heros froid et med...	Benjamin Newton	anon	Letters written by an eminent persons in the seventeenth century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Drove out to Ledbury with Commeline, Ann, C, and M.N Junior [...]Having read Kitt's [NB Kett's] Flowers of Wit I pron...	Benjamin Newton	Henry Kett	The flowers of wit, or a choice collection of bon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Shuckfords Connections, Galt's Life of West. The former is a work of a man of great learning and little judgement.'	Benjamin Newton	Samuel Shuckford	The sacred and profane history of the world	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read [...] Galt's Life of West [...]is recorded one of the noblest instances of religious userality in a Quaker that ...	Benjamin Newton	Galt	[Life of West] the life and studies of Benjamin West	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Very much struck at the unpreachable style of Clarke on the attributes, his logical and metaphysical views, his answe...	Benjamin Newton	Samuel Clarke	A demonstration of the being and attributes of God	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the review of Tweddell's Remains where it is said that out of religious motives he refrained from animal food.'	Benjamin Newton	John Tweddell	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The poorest review of any book that I have yet met in the Edinburgh is that of Goethe.'	Benjamin Newton	n/a	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read Wilkins and Visconti on the Elgin marbles. Wilkins' assertions that Visconti does not think the relievos on the ...	Rev. Benjamin Newton	Ennio Visconti	A letter from the chevalier Antonio Canova	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read bishop of Gloucester's Charge which I think excellent for its devotion, its liberality, its style and manner and...	Rev. Benjamin Newton	Henry Ryder	A charge delivered to the clergy of the Diocese	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read Bingley's useful knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'.	Rev. Benjamin Newton	William Bingley	Useful knowledge or a familiar and explanatory account	Unknown
	1800-1849	'An account in the papers of Mrs W. Long being married to Rich the Rope dancer, old Billy Long was a fine contrast to ...	Benjamin Newton	n/a	[newspapers?]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read Bingley's Useful Knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'.	Benjamin Newton	Thomas Pyle	[sermons?]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Went hunting [...] saw Mr Claridge's advertisement for the sale of 11, 695 trees of which 5241 were oaks.'	Benjamin Newton	n/a	[advertisement]	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	'Saw today in the paper that Philip's Norton was given to Mr Warner'.	Benjamin Newton	n/a	[Local newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read Kidd's Geological Essay and an account of 10 years residence in Tripoli. Kidd's a very bad embarresed [sic] styl...	Benjamin Newton	John Kidd	A Geological essay on the Imperfect Evidence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Wood's Isle of Man because I knew nothing of it and he has said little from there being very little to say'.	Benjamin Newton	George Woods	An account of the past and present state of the Isle of Man	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Dallaway on sculpture is very slovenly from the little pains he takes to be clear. It is very difficult to know what ...	Benjamin Newton	James Dallaway	Of Statuary and Sculpture among the Antients	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Warden's account of Buonuparte [sic]. Whether or not W wrote this account with a view to influence his readers i...	Benjamin Newton	William Warden	Letters written on board [...]in which the conduct	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediatel...	anon	Sir Philip Sidney	The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia	Unknown
	1500-1599 1600-1699	" ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, de...	Sir John Suckling	William Shakespeare	The Rape of Lucrece	Unknown
	1600-1699	"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe...	Henry Wotton	R	Poems	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe...	Henry Wotton	John Milton	A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C1...	anon	John Milton	Paradise Regain'd/Samson Agonistes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,...	John Stuart Mill	William Wordsworth	poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,...	John Ruskin	William Wordsworth	poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her...	Mary Ann Evans	Mary Finlay Cross	story	Unknown
	1500-1599 1600-1699	" ... [John] Donne describes his 'poor Library, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometime...	John Donne		various texts	Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val...	Edwin Muir		[study of David Hume]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val...	Edwin Muir	Christopher Marlowe		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val...	Edwin Muir	George Crabbe		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...	Neville Cardus	n/a	[boys' papers]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...	Neville Cardus	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...	Neville Cardus	Mark Twain	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...	Neville Cardus	Henry Fielding	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...	Neville Cardus	Robert Browning	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...	Neville Cardus	Thomas Hardy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...	Neville Cardus	Leo Tolstoy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...	Neville Cardus	Henry James	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	[n/a]	[a Latin-English Dictionary]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wood's account of the Isle of Man details some laws for the regulation of servants [...] which prevailed till 1777, s...	Benjamin Newton	George Woods	An account of the past and present state of the Isle of Man	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Robert Ingersoll	[speeches on agnosticism]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his l...	Benjamin Newton	Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield	Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Self Reliance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Washington Irving	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture...	Benjamin Newton	Samuel Clarke	A demonstration of the being attributes of God	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.'	Benjamin Newton	Samuel Burder	Oriental Customs:or an illustration of the sacred	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Edgar Allan Poe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Walt Whitman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Mark Twain	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	William Hazlitt	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.'	Benjamin Newton	n/a	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	John Locke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Immanuel Kant	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Sigmund Freud	Psychoneurosis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the report of the secret committee setting forth the treasonable attempts to overthrow the government and divide...	Benjamin Newton	n/a	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burders Illustration of Scripture,...	Benjamin Newton	Samuel Burder	Oriental Customs: or an illustration of the sacred	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own char...	Benjamin Newton	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by hims...	Benjamin Newton	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from...	Benjamin Newton	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In reading Franklin's correspondence, it is impossible not to be entertained by his lively style and I think not to b...	Benjamin Newton	Benjamin Franklen	The private correspondence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Clarke and Madame La Roche Jaqueline'.	Benjamin Newton	Samuel Clarke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'.	Benjamin Newton	Charles Montholon	Bonaparte's memorial in a letter	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect for that fine ode.'	Benjamin Newton	Thomas Gray	The Bard: A pindaric ode	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his be...	Benjamin Newton	n/a	'The newspapers'	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Lafcadio Hearn	Life and Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.'	Benjamin Newton	John Taylor	Junius identified or the identity of Junius	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After having read the accounts of the trial of the Glasgow Moters as managed by the Lord Advocate [...] I think a mor...	Benjamin Newton	n/a	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Henri Bergson	Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Arthur Schopenhauer	The World as Will and Idea	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'.	Benjamin Newton	William Paley	Evidences of Christianity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Walpole's Turkey and M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China'.	Benjamin Newton	Robert Walpole	Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste. Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one ...	Benjamin Newton		bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Having read Hutton's life of himself which afforded me much amusement I mean to get a book and attempt something of t...	Benjamin Newton	William Hutton	The life of William Hutton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Walpoe's Turkey amd M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China.'	Benjamin Newton	John Macleod	Narrative of a voyage in his majesty's late ship A	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. ...	Benjamin Newton	Thomas Chalmers	A series of discourses on the Christian recelation	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I...	Benjamin Newton	John Macleod	Voyage of the Alceste	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Transcribed and altered a sermon of my grandfather's on the text "And if I be lifted up will draw all men to me" [...]'	Benjamin Newton	grandfather of Benjamin Newton	[sermon]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'Read Golownins captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'	Benjamin Newton	Vasily Golovnin	Narrative of my captivity in Japan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'	Benjamin Newton	Walter Scott	Rob Roy: By the author of Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J.Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes...	Benjamin Newton	Samuel Pegge	Anecdotes of the English language	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with note...	Benjamin Newton	Sir John Sinclair	The Code of Agriculture	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with note...	Benjamin Newton	Bede	[The Ecclesiastical History]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His suppos...	Benjamin Newton	Samuel Clarke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades t...	Benjamin Newton	John Curwen	Observations on the State of Ireland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology'	Benjamin Newton	Thomas Gisborne	The Testimony of Natural Theology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly ...	Benjamin Newton	Thomas Gisborne	The Testimony of Natural Theology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor J...	Benjamin Newton	[Von Buch]	[a tour in Denmark]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused ...	Benjamin Newton	Richard Watson	Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson [...] writ	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Armata, said to be Lord Erskine's, very unworthy of his name 'tho his politics are displayed which are pretty ne...	Benjamin Newton	[Erskine or T.E.]	Armata, a Fragment	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day wi...	Benjamin Newton	[Von Buch]	[A Tour in Denmark]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]'	Benjamin Newton	[Von Buch]	[A Tour in Denmark]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode...	Benjamin Newton	William Derham	Physio Theology or a Demonstartion of the being	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs...	Benjamin Newton	n/a	n/a	Manuscript: Graffito
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"To the Editors of the Attempt, Gentlemen, If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication ...	anon		The Attempt	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	"Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roma...	Florence Nightingale	Mrs Trimmer	New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman HIstory	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	" ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigr...	anon	Jonathan Edwards	Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	" ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 've...	John Ruskin	Philip Nichols	Sir Francis Drake Revived	Print: Book
	1700-1799	H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and c...	anon	Richard Watson	A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in go...	James Henry Leigh Hunt	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Meditations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains ...	anon	William Beckford	Annotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement	Manuscript: annotations in printed text
	1700-1799	H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ...	General James Wolfe	Thomas Gray	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
	1700-1799	" ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the ess...	Alexander Pope	Michel de Montaigne	essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of t...	Alexander Pope	John Wilmot Earl of Rochester	poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in ...	Alexander Pope	John Dennis	pamphlet attacking Pope's poetry
	1700-1799	In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about th...	Francis Douce	John Whitaker	History of Manchester	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of Willia...	anon	William Mudford	Nubilia in Search of a Husband	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen...	anon		LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen'	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Jane Austen	novels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]'	Benjamin Newton	Marco Polo	The Travels of Marco Polo	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of...	Benjamin Newton	Marco Polo	The Travels of Marco Polo	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode...	Benjamin Newton	Richard Hurd	Sermons [sermons preached at Lincolns Inn]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Bad account of the Queen in today's St. James' Chronicle'.	Benjamin Newton	n/a	St. James' Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.'	Benjamin Newton	n/a	The Courier	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a voyage round the world'.	Benjamin Newton	William Derham	Physico Theology: or a Demonstration of the being	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'.	Benjamin Newton	Archibald Campbell	A Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'.	Benjamin Newton	Juvenal	Satires	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Eustace's tour and think he is the best dissenter I have met with, rather prolix about churches, especially such...	Benjamin Newton	John Chetwode Eustace	A [classical] tour through Italy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of b...	John Bedford Leno	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the Poets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ...	John Bedford Leno	Anti Corn Law League	[tracts]
	1800-1849	"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ...	John Bedford Leno		The Northern Star	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ...	John Bedford Leno		New Moral World	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ...	John Bedford Leno		The Examiner	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	"It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out...	John Bedford Leno	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by th...	John Bedford Leno	Walter Scott	The Lady of the Lake	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"I found on entering Harborough the walls posted with a proclamation forbidding all meetings in favour of Chartism."	John Bedford Leno		[proclamations forbidding Chartists' meetings]	Print: Poster
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, ...	John Bedford Leno	William Wordsworth	Sonnets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"It so happened that a retired Scotch physician, who had settled in the town, chanced to read this notice, and, intere...	a Scotch physician	Falcon Harmonic Society	Notice of a Burns Supper	Print: Poster
	1800-1849	'Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a des...	John Cole		European, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	"Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a ...	John Cole		[books of topography and travel]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive,...	John Cole	Robinson	Scripture Characters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive,...	John Cole		Wonders of the vegetable kingdom, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a portion of Harvey's Theron and Aspasio...'	John Cole	James Hervey	Theron and Aspasio	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'	John Cole	Bradley	Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'	John Cole	Bradley	Sacred Lyre, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.'	John Cole	J Smith	advertisement	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.'	John Cole	Thomas Frognall Dibdin	Bibliographical Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.'	John Cole	David	Second tour round a Bibliomaniac's library	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...he wrote a poetical piece in my album in an almost unpremeditated manner; & finding it applicable to my History of...	John Cole		[poetry]	Manuscript: Handwritten in Album
	1800-1849	'This summer (1825) the author of 'A Journal of a naturalist', states to have been, what it certainly was, 'hot and dr...	John Cole	Williamson	A Journal of a naturalist	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was my practise on each Sunday of this summer to pray with him & read a sermon or portions of one to him, which ga...	John Cole		[sermons]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'On my return I found that the printed copy of a letter from the late Mr Hinderwell had been left at my shop.'	John Cole		[printed letter]	Print: Sheet
	1800-1849	'Read W Trimmer's Sacred History.'	John Cole	W Trimmer	Sacred History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	H. J. Jackson discusses annotations by John Horne Tooke in his copy of Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Mat...	John Horne Tooke	Joseph Priestley	Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Joseph Milner	History of the Church of Christ	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af...	John Cole	Thomas Frognall Dibdin	Bibliographical Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af...	John Cole	Delany	Life of King David	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af...	John Cole	John Gay	Choir, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor...	John Cole	Archdeacon Wranghan	Lines on the sea bathing infirmary at Scarborough	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor...	John Cole	George Berrett		Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor...	John Cole	Hermione Ballantyre		Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor...	John Cole	Malvina [pseud.]	[poetry]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall...	Benjamin Britten	Gerard Manley Hopkins	[religious poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Letter 202 to Ralph Hodges, Woodstock, N.Y., Aug 15 1939: 'I?ve done lots of work ? finished this small piece for Tor...	Benjamin Britten	John Keats	Hyperion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was delighted to hear that the performance was so good, Sophie. I hear you have never sung better and I know what t...	Benjamin Britten		[reviews]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Thank you ? thank you - & thank you for a most marvellous show. ? I am more than grateful to you for having spend so ...	Benjamin Britten		[reviews]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'- have you ever read a book called "1066 & all that" ?i t's very funny, & one of the authors is on board.'	Benjamin Britten	R J Yeatman	1066 and all that	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? f...	Benjamin Britten	Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin	Boris Godonof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	?One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? f...	Benjamin Britten	Hans Christian Anderson		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I enjoyed the poem ? please send all the new ones ? I always carry ?madrigal? in my pocket!'	Benjamin Britten	Wulff Scherchen	[poem]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	Referring to a concert in New York where one of his pieces was performed: 'The write-ups have been marvellous ? so I ...	Benjamin Britten		[concert review]	Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I am reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.'	Benjamin Britten	Benvenuto Cellini	Autobiography	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds wi...	Hannah Macaulay	Germaine de Stael	De l'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Robert Southey	Thalaba	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Elizabeth Montague	[essay on Shakespeare]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	unknown	History of James I	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Hebrew Melodies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa...	Thomas Babbington Macaulay	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Walter Scott	Lay of the Last Minstrel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Walter Scott	Marmion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the begin...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginn...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginn...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head ...	Arnold Bennett		[history]	Unknown
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marke...	John Drummond Erskine	Helvetius	A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. Hooper	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In a letter to Mrs Herzog he says: "Wells's new novel, Marriage, of which I have just read the proofs, contains more ...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Marriage	Manuscript: Unknown, proofs of book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to ...	John Drummond Erskine	William Tennant	Indian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William Tennant	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "T...	Arnold Bennett		Times, The	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Conten...	John Drummond Erskine	Francis Gladwin	Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of te...	John Gibson Lockhart	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the...	anon	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D	Print: Book
		H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likel...	anon	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D	Print: Book
		H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but...	anon	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D	Print: Book
		H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but...	anon		Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D	Manuscript: annotation in printed text
	1700-1799	H. J. Jackson discusses Edmund Law's annotations to family Bible, which includes both original and copied commentary, ...	Edmund Law		The Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	H. J. Jackson discusses Queen Charlotte's responsive "extra-illustration" of text of her copy of An Apology for the Li...	Queen Charlotte	Colley Cibber	An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian ... with an Historical View of the Stage During his Own Time	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a t...	John Drummond Erskine	Hafiz	The works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His...	anon	Mrs Henry Sandford	Thomas Poole and His Friends	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and in...	Thomas Frognall Dibdin		Illustrated Chatterton	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "T...	Arnold Bennett		Times Literary Supplement, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: a single item, within a miscellany, is annotated "The Monody on the death of Mr. Cleveland" pp.146-151. ...	John Drummond Erskine		Javahir at-talif fi navadir at-tasanif = The Asiatick miscellany: consisting of original productions, translations, fugitive pieces, imitations, and extracts from curious publications, Vol.2	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson discusses John Horseman's annotations to, and insertions in, his first edition copy of William Godwin, M...	John Horseman	William Godwin	Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... a tourist guide to Salisbury Cathedral, published about 1800 and acquired by the British Library in 1874, contai...	anon		guide to Salisbury Cathedral	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .'	Arnold Bennett	William Charles Macready	[diary]	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Serm...	clergyman	Henry Blunt	Sermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When her novels were finished, she would take them up herself to Gerald Duckworth at 3, Henrietta Street, Covent Gard...	Elinor Glyn	Elinor Glyn	[novels]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand]	John Byrom	William Wollaston	The Religion of Nature Delineated	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I called at Squire's [...] my advertisement was not in the Daily Courant. Went into St Dunstan's Church to hear Dr Lu...	John Byrom	n/a	The Daily Courant	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1700-1799	'To Richard's where I stayed all afternoon ... I met mr Graham of our college formerly, and he showed me some Verses a...	John Byrom	anon	[Verse on Lord Cateret]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes'	John Byrom	John Bramhall	Castigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The Ca	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read a good deal of Shakespeares works. Item Ben Johnsons, & Return'd them to the library'	John Henry Ott	William Shakespereare	[various]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read the 2 Vol of the Tatler'	John Henry Ott	n/a	Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Elinor herself spent much time reading the publications, especially Richard Ingalese's "The History and Power of Mind...	Elinor Glyn	Richard Ingalese	History and Power of Mind, The	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbric...	Anne Tibble	Thomas Stearns Eliot	The Waste Land	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbric...	Anne Tibble	John Clare	[poetry]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes political and critical remarks added by Anna Seward to copy of William Cowper, The Task.	Anna Seward	William Cowper	The Task	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradua...	anon	George Eliot	Middlemarch	Print: Book
	1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributio...	Francis Palgrave	Alfred Russel Wallace	Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A con...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	T. J. Mathias	Pursuits of Literature	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes annotations (including corrections and updatings to text and notes) by Francis Hargrave in copy of...	Francis Hargrave	Edward Coke	The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; or, A Commentary upon Littleton	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...	William John Brown	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...	William John Brown	Henry Rider Haggard	She	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...	William John Brown	James Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...	William John Brown	Jules Verne	Around the World in Eighty Days	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...	William John Brown	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Idiot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...	William John Brown	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria...	William John Brown	Charles Darwin	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria...	William John Brown	Thomas Henry Huxley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria...	William John Brown	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	In Memoriam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Benjamin Dockray ... acquired a copy of Godwin's Memoirs [of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] seco...	Benjamin Dockray	William Godwin	Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous ...	Granville Sharp	Samuel Estwick	Considerations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Called
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Edmund Ferrars's annotations to his copy of Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey: "A note on the...	Edmund Ferrars	Laurence Sterne	A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays ...	John James Raven	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada"	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a...	Henry Shorthouse	John Keble	The Christian Year	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a...	Henry Shorthouse	John Keble	The Christian Year	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a...	Henry Shorthouse	John Keble	The Christian Year	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by i...	Hester Lynch Piozzi		The Imperial Family Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817)...	Hester Lynch Piozzi	James Andrew Pettit	Anecdotes, &c Ancient and Modern	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinr...	Joseph Henry Green	Novalis	Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2)	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Mar...	John Horseman	Maria Edgeworth	Letters for Literary Ladies	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	William Shakespeare	[works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Geoffrey Chaucer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Christopher Marlowe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Ben Jonson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	John Milton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Alexander Pope	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Thomas Chatterton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Oliver Goldsmith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Robert Burns	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	William Wordsworth	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Leigh Hunt	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	John Fletcher	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...	Allen Clarke	Francis Beaumont	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Thomas Hardy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Joseph Conrad	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Herbert George Wells	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Arnold Bennett	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	John Galsworthy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Edith Wharton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Willa Cather	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ...	John Masefield	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	The Dying Swan	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ...	John Masefield	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Evangeline	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ...	John Masefield	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Hiawatha	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured...	John Masefield	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his ...	John Masefield	Thomas Malory	Morte d'Arthur	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...	John Masefield	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Parliament of Fowls	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...	John Masefield	John Milton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...	John Masefield	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...	John Masefield	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	H. J. Jackson notes annotations (adding"information and explanations") made to copy of Samuel Saunders, Short and Easy...	anon	Samuel Saunders	A Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Philosophic Botany	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama...	John Haslemere	Gerard Langbaine	An Account of the English Dramatic Poets	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"When John Brand had a copy of his Observations on Popular Antiquities (1777) interleaved to take materials for a revi...	Francis Douce	John Brand	Observations on Popular Antiquities	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotation of James Granger, Biographical History (1779).	Francis Douce	James Granger	Biographical History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The...	Francis Douce	John Whitaker	The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The...	Francis Douce	John Whitaker	The History of Manchester	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of L...	anon		The New School of Love	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with...	anon	Justinian	The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduction, Translation, and Notes, by Thomas Collett Sandars	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the "...	Arnold Bennett	T. S. Eliot	Criterion, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'He read "The Lost Girl" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediatel...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	Lost Girl, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The conception of this particular novel ["Riceyman Steps"] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old South...	Arnold Bennett	F. Sommer Merryweather	Lives and Anecdotes of Misers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'...he read widely about working-class life in the district.'	Arnold Bennett	unknown		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelp...	Arnold Bennett	Mioddleton Murry	Adelphi, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rug...	Pauline Smith	Arnold Bennett	Riceyman Steps	Print: Book, proofs
	1700-1799	'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.'	Frances Burney	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu...	Anna Seward	Mary Wortley Montagu	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Peter Pindar	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you t...	Frances Boscawen	Denis Diderot	Les bijous indiscrets	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasi...	Frances Burney	Thucydides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ...	Frances Burney	Cicero	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". S...	Frances Burney	James Cook	Voyage to the Pacific Ocean	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She ...	Frances Burney	Marie de Sevigne	letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ...	Frances Burney	Samuel Johnson	Life of Waller	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patron...	Frances Burney	Hannah More	Coelebs in search of a wife	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro...	Frances Burney	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro...	Frances Burney	Samuel James Arnold	The Creole	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro...	Frances Burney	Lady Morgan	The Missionary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'	Frances Burney		some new novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'	Frances Burney	William Godwin	Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading...	Janet Schaw	Lord Kames		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the...	Anna Larpent	William Mason	Caractacus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [edi...	Ellen Weeton	Mary Ann Hanway	Ellinor, or the World as it is (A Novel in Four Volumes)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Royal Sufferers, or Intrigues at the Close of the 18th Century. by J.Agg. 3 vols.' [no commentary on the text: pa...	Ellen Weeton	John Agg	The Royal Sufferer; or, Intrigues at the close of	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished the last "Tales of My Landlord" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculi...	Benjamin Newton	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord or Black Dwarf and old Mortal	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the "St James' Chronicle" this morning, in co...	Benjamin Newton	n/a	St James' Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by slee...	Benjamin Newton	James Hingston Tuckey	Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Za	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the "St James' Chronicle" says today that while British troops w...	Rev Benjamin Newton	n/a	St. James' Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'.	Benjamin Newton	n/a	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already...	John Masefield	Herman Melville	The Green Hand	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already...	John Masefield	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim...	John Masefield	George du Maurier	Trilby	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim...	John Masefield	Alexandre Dumas (pere)	The Three Musketeers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim...	John Masefield	Laurence Sterne	A Sentimental Journey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim...	John Masefield	Charles Darwin	The Origin of Species	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede...	John Masefield	George du Maurier	Peter Ibbetson	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede...	John Masefield	Francois Villon		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede...	John Masefield	Alfred Louis Charles de Musset		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an...	John Masefield	Thomas de Quincey	Confessions of an English Opium Eater	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ...	John Masefield	Richard Steele	[essays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ...	John Masefield	Joseph Addison	[essays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ...	John Masefield	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known exis...	John Masefield	Percy Bysshe Shelley	The Revolt of Islam	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Edward Fitzgerald		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	George Meredith		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Dante Gabriel Rossetti		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Matthew Arnold		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Robert Browning		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Gustave Flaubert		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Guy de Maupassant		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Prosper Merimee		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Walter Pater		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi...	John Masefield	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi...	John Masefield	Robert Louis Stevenson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi...	John Masefield	William Morris		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rh...	John Masefield	Algernon Charles Swinburne	Chastelard	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rh...	John Masefield	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[poem on the death of Baudelaire]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with ...	Anna Larpent	James Thomson	Edward and Elinora	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose discip...	John Masefield	Wiliam Butler Yeats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition fr...	Anna Larpent	John Locke	Essay on human understanding	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well ...	Anna Larpent	James Mackintosh	Vindiciae Galliciae	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi...	Aneurin (Nye) Bevan	[n/a]	Roget's Thesaurus	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi...	Aneurin (Nye) Bevan	Friedrich Nietzsche	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi...	Aneurin (Nye) Bevan	F.H. Bradley	Appearance and Reality	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed...	Anna Larpent	Lord Monboddo	Of the origin and progress of language	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi...	Aneurin (Nye) Bevan	Immanuel Kant	Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi...	Aneurin (Nye) Bevan	Thorstein Veblen	The Theory of the Leisure Class	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a co...	Anna Larpent		Les mille et une nuits	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	Henri Bergson		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	[probably] Georges-Eugene Sorel		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	Havelock Ellis		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	John Galsworthy		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	Joseph Conrad		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	Edward Morgan Forster		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	James Joyce		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	David Herbert Lawrence		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...	Edwin Muir	Ezra Pound	article in The New Age	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Id...	Edwin Muir	Friedrich Nietzsche	The Twilight of the Idols	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Id...	Edwin Muir	Friedrich Nietzsche	Ecce Homo	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Though Anna studied pious works almost constantly, she almost never commented in her diary on her religious reading ....	Anna Larpent		[sermons]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit t...	Anna Larpent	Daniel Defoe	Tour through the whole island of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive re...	Anna Larpent	Ramsay	a dialogue on taste	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she desc...	Anna Larpent	Thomas Paine	Rights of man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversat...	Anna Larpent	Joseph Priestley	On the origin of government	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on The Origin of government 'rather to lead conversatio...	John Larpent	Joseph Priestley	On the origin of government	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv...	John Larpent	Sarah Trimmer	Sacred history	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv...	Anna Larpent	Sarah Trimmer	Sacred history	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Consta...	stepson of Anna Larpent	Sutherland	Tour of Constantinople	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental...	Anna Larpent	Pierre Marivaux	Marienne	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manne...	Anna Larpent	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for ...	Bonar Thompson	James Joyce	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for ...	Bonar Thompson	Andre Gide	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Wordsworth	Prelude, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Cowper		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to ...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	John Ruskin	Modern Painters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	George du Maurier	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	W.J. Locke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Hilaire Belloc	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'...he confessed that he could not understand a word of Gertrude Stein.'	Arnold Bennett	Gertrude Stein	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote ...	Arnold Bennett	John Middleton Murry	Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him ...	Arnold Bennett	Balzac		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . .he was annoyed with Capes for misquoting his enthusiasm for Joyce in an advertisement for "Portrait of the Artis...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Advertisement
	1900-1945	'He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in "The Mercury" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .'	Arnold Bennett	J.B. Priestley	Mercury, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid...	Bernard Kops	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid...	Bernard Kops	Matthew Arnold	The Forsaken Merman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid...	Bernard Kops	Rupert Brooke	Grantchester	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid...	Bernard Kops	Thomas Stearns Eliot	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid...	Bernard Kops	Thomas Stearns Eliot	'The Waste Land'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal...	Bernard Kops	[unknown]	[Russian literature]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal...	Bernard Kops	Walt Whitman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal...	Bernard Kops	Emily Dickinson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often...	Virginia Woolf		Times Literary Supplement, The	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .'	Arnold Bennett	Theodore Dreiser		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'.	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	The World of William Clissold	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, i...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	[review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clissold"]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1600-1699	"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began ...	Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery	George Sandys	A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began ...	Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery	Geoffrey Chaucer		Print: Book
	1600-1699	" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's...	Lady Anne Clifford	Robert Parson	The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution	Print: Book
	1600-1699	" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's...	Lady Anne Clifford	Thomas Sorocold	Supplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... Wherein are three most excellent prayers made by Queene Elizabeth	Print: Book
	1600-1699	" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's...	Lady Anne Clifford		"lady's book of praise of a solitary life"	Print: Book
	1600-1699	" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's...	Lady Anne Clifford		"book of the preaparation to the sarament"	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho...	Henry Cooke	Richard Johnson	The Seven Champions of Christendom and Destruction of Troy	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho...	Henry Cooke		Hero and Leander	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho...	Henry Cooke		Gesta Romanorum	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho...	Henry Cooke		Seven wise masters	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho...	Henry Cooke		Chinese tales	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho...	Henry Cooke		Parismos and Parismenes	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho...	Henry Cooke	Richard Johnson	The honour or chivalry; or, the famous history of Don Belianis of Greece	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho...	Henry Cooke		The History of Captain Freney	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Stur...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always exc...	Gwen Raverat	Walter Scott	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading "The Brothers Karamazov" for the fourth time'.	Arnold Bennett	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Brothers Karamazov, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just be...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Advertisement, Poster
	1900-1945	'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfacto...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her s...	[unknown] Jebb	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in Ki...	Gwen Raverat	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t...	Gwen Raverat	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t...	Gwen Raverat	William Makepeace Thackeray	Henry Esmond	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; bo...	Gwen Raverat	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying...	Gwen Raverat	Thomas Bewick		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but on...	Gwen Raverat	William Wordsworth	Excursion, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'we first drew the curtains all round her four-post bed, so that it was quite dark inside; and then, having pulled the...	Henrietta Litchfield	Jean Ingelow	Don John	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and...	Henrietta Litchfield	Susan Warner	The Wide Wide World	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and...	Henrietta Litchfield	Frederick Marryat	Masterman Ready	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and...	Henrietta Litchfield	Charlotte Mary Yonge	The Little Duke	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and...	Henrietta Litchfield	Harriet Martineau	Settlers at Home	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and...	Henrietta Litchfield	Frederick Marryat	The Children of the New Forest	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and...	Henrietta Litchfield	Elizabeth Anna Hart	The Runaway	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and...	Henrietta Litchfield	George Macdonald	The Princess and the Goblin	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Roth...	Arnold Bennett	William Rothenstein	Men and Memories	Manuscript: typescript
	1900-1945	'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .'	Arnold Bennett	W Somerset Maugham	Cakes and Ale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's "Virgin and the Gipsy", which he admired even more [than "Cakes and Ale"].'	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	Virgin and the Gipsy, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's "Experiment with Time" - also Einstein and Addington.'	Arnold Bennett	J.W. Dunne	Experiment with Time, An	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".'	Anna Larpent	Thomas Holcroft	Anna St Ives	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of suff...	Anna Larpent	William Smellie	Philosophy of Natural History	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or wo...	Anna Larpent	various	various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power ...	Anna Larpent	Hannah More	Percy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work...	Anna Larpent	Charlotte Smith	Desmond	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision].	Henry More	Aristotle	Mechanicks	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a les...	Anna Seward	Thomas Gisborne	[conduct books]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are...	Frances Burney			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. C...	Frances Burney			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin...	John Byrom			Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin...	John Byrom			Print: Book
	1700-1799	Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin...	John Byrom		books	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin...	John Byrom			Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	"... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying v...	Benjamin Tooke		seditious book	Print: unbound printed sheets
	1600-1699	"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printin...	anon ("others")	Giles Widdowes	Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan	Print: Book, proof copy
	1600-1699	Reading James Harrington, The Common-Wealth of Oceana, Henry Oldenburg "took notes only from the 'Preliminaries'."	Henry Oldenburg	James Harrington	The Common-Wealth of Oceana	Print: Book
	1600-1699 1700-1799	" ... the crypto-Jacobite virtuoso John Byrom used laudanum to treat his sister, Ellen, after noting that she had been...	Ellen	Clarendon		Print: Book
	1600-1699	"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se...	John Rogers		transcribed sermons	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se...	John Rogers		morning and evening prayers	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se...	John Rogers		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot,...	Francis Bishop		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought up...	anon		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series ...	Henry More	Aristotle	Mechanics	Print: Book
	1600-1699	Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series ...	Henry More	Ptolemy	Geographia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the ...	John Drummond Erskine	Joseph Emin	The life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenian. Written in English by himself	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...	Catherine Talbot		french romances	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...	Catherine Talbot	Tobias Smollett	Roderick Random	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...	Catherine Talbot	Eliza Haywood	various novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...	Catherine Talbot	Sarah Fielding	various works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...	Catherine Talbot		French romances	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite...	Catherine Talbot	Katherine Phillips	works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite...	Catherine Talbot	Elizabeth Rowe	works	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdi...	John Drummond Erskine	Ovid	Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan Bailey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever...	Alexander Macneill		Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever...	Alexander Macneill		[newspaper from Charlottetown]	Print: Newspaper, Daily
	1850-1899	[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is referen...	Magdalene Sharpe Erskine	Alexander Macaulay	A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: ms note at foot of p.8 of Appendix: 'J. Claver ...[ J. Clavering is the first signatory of the letter on...	N.S. Cornith	Joseph Price	Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; on the latter part of the late report of the Select Committee on the state of justice in Bengal. With some curious particulars and original anecdotes concerning the forgery committed by Maha Rajah Nundcomar Bahadar[...]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium.	John Flamsteed	Edmond Halley	Catalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum Catalogi Tychonici exhibens longitudines et latitudines stellarum fixarum ...	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [s...	John Flamsteed	Robert Hooke	Cometa	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] som...	anon	Isaac Newton	Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's reading of sheets 1 and 3 of his star catalogue (submitted for printing withou...	John Flamsteed	John Flamsteed	sections of catalogue of stars	Print: sheets
	1700-1799	Adrian Johns describes how "[Edmond] Halley ... [took] to 'correcting' the copy [of John Flamsteed's star catalogue] i...	Edmond Halley	John Flamsteed	catalogue of stars
	1600-1699	[Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Tak...	Andrew Greirson	Nicholas Culpeper	Pharmacopoeia Londinensis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or ...	John Drummond Erskine	Stephen Weston	A specimen of the conformity of the European languages	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave hi...	Gwen Raverat	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to...	Ellen Crofts	Robert Louis Stevenson		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to...	Ellen Crofts	(probably) William Ernest Henley		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort...	Gwen Raverat	Charlotte Mary Yonge	The Daisy Chain	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort...	Gwen Raverat	Susan Warner	The Wide Wide World	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'	Gwen Raverat	Robert Browning	Saul	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'	Gwen Raverat		Bible, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I ver...	Henrietta Darwin	Edward Morgan Forster		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's ...	Henry James	Gustave Flaubert	correspondence	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had critici...	Henry James	Edmund Gosse	biographies	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters, on James's feelings regarding publication of letters: "He oppos...	Henry James	Robert Louis Stevenson	Letters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."	Henry James	Honore de Balzac	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."	Henry James	Prosper Merimee	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I ...	Henry James	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many Engl...	Henry James		magazines and newspapers	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many Engl...	Henry James		Cornhill Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have j...	Henry James	A. W. Kinglake	Eothen	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ...	Henry James		The British Chronicle	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ...	Henry James		bound weekly newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ...	Henry James	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	Letters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ...	Henry James	Friedrich von Schiller	Maria Stuart	Print: Book
		[Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numer...	Henry Fox	William Camden	The history of the most renowned and victorious princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 18 April 1864: "I got Browning's plays from J[ohn].'s [La Farge] and have been r...	Henry James	Robert Browning	plays	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just be...	Henry James	Maurice de Guerin	Journals/Letters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just be...	Henry James	Eugenie de Guerin	Journals and Letters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: "What are you reading? I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolut...	Henry James	Vaughan	English Revolutions in Religion	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: " ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with M...	Henry James	Harriet Beecher Stowe	[two or three works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: "Here I have been ... all summer and here...	Henry James	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your le...	Henry James	Hippolyte Taine	Notes sur Paris, Vie et opinions de M. Frederic-Thomas Graindorge	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your le...	Henry James	Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve	Nouveaux lundis	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [Geor...	Henry James	George Sand	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "In English I have read nothing new, e...	Henry James	Matthew Arnold	New Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm...	Henry James	William James	Review of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche Machte	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: "I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy. A good ...	Henry James	unknown	French texts	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P...	Henry James	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P...	Henry James	Stendhal	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P...	Henry James	Charles de Brosses	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P...	Henry James	Nathaniel Hawthorne	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreci...	Arnold Bennett	W.L. Alden	article/review of "Anna of the Five Towns"	Print: Newspaper, Literary Supplement
	1700-1799	'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot...	John Heylin	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version
	1700-1799	'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot...	John Freke	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version
	1700-1799	'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi...	Susanna Highmore	Abraham Cowley		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha...	Susanna Highmore	Edmund Spenser		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 af...	John Drummond Erskine	James Beattie	Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proport...	John Drummond Erskine	James Steuart	An inquiry into the principles of political oeconomy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, on walking in Switzerland and Italy: "[after crossing Bernadine pass] I .....	Henry James	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Old Town Folks	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, from Lake Como: "I read yesterday in the Times the news of the defeat of t...	Henry James		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Alice James, 8 November (letter begun 7 November) 1869: "I have of course no company but my own [in Rom...	Henry James	Stendhal	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 1 January 1870 (letter begun 27 December 1869): " ... I felt a most refreshing blast of ...	Henry James	Henry James Sr	"reply to a 'Swedenborgian'"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw...	Henry James	Henry James Sr	articles on Swedenborg	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw...	Henry James	Henry James Sr	"Is Marriage Holy?"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."	Henry James	Robert Lowell	poem	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."	Henry James	William Dean Howells	"A Pedestrian Tour"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning...	Henry James	Robert Browning	The Ring and the Book	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning...	Henry James	Charles de Brosses	Lettres familieres ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning...	Henry James	Henry Crabbe Robinson	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning...	Henry James	Charles-Augustin Saint-Beuve	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870, regarding process of Italian unification: "[A] reflection I have ... v...	Henry James		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870: "[At home in Cambridge] I take so much satisfaction in reading the pap...	Henry James		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for Dec...	Henry James	F. Harrison	article on Bismarck	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for Dec...	Henry James	J. Morley	article on Byron	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so tha...	Henry James	unknown	various works (dealing with Innsbruck)	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickene...	Henry James	Leslie Stephen	The Playgrounds of Europe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: " ... I make a very pleasant life of it. I...	Henry James	unknown	"lightish books"	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 9 August 1871: "Every now and then I vaguely scheme to take up my valises and wal...	Henry James		timetables	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 February 1872: "You, like all the world here I suppose, have been reading Fors...	Henry James	John Forster	Life of Charles Dickens	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" ... [Henry James] would [after 1872] be a close reader of Renan ... whom he later met."	Henry James	Joseph Ernest Renan	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): " ... I read the Figaro every day, religi...	Henry James		Le Figaro	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): "I read your Taine and admired, though bu...	Henry James	William James	Review of Hippolyte Taine, "On Intelligence"	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873: "Yesterday came an Atlantic with my Bethnal Green notice and its other r...	Henry James		The Atlantic, including articles by Henry James and William Dean Howells	Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent...	Frances Anne Kemble	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 26 January 1873: "I trust indeed [Edward S.] Stokes will be hanged [for murder of J...	Henry James		Roman newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: "I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very...	Henry James	unknown	Italian texts	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 24 March 1873: "Thank him [Henry James Sr] ... greatly for his story of Mr Webster....	Henry James	Henry James Sr	anecdote/account ("story of Mr Webster")	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: "Your letter was full of points of great interest. Your criticism on Midd...	Henry James	William James	"criticism of Middlemarch"	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which h...	Martin	n/a	Old and New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ...	Charles Manby Smith	Tom Paine	Age of Reason	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ...	Charles Manby Smith	Bishop Watson	Apology for the bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my moth...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...	Charles Manby Smith	William Cobbett	[French Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...	Charles Manby Smith	[unknown]	[French pocket dictionary]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	Telemaque	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French ...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	[newspaper advertisements]	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	Moniteur	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	"'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a...	Charles Manby Smith	Dr D of Prospect Villa	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with m...	Charles Manby Smith	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'By the middle of March 1831, I ...	Charles Manby Smith	Dr D	[manuscript of his book]	Manuscript: manuscript of book
	1800-1849	'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and le...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 11 May 1873 (letter begun 9 May): "I have seen some newspaper mention of [Aimee Ol...	Henry James		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James, in letter to William James, 19 May 1873, mentions receiving and reading a "scrap from the Advertiser" (en...	Henry James		comments on Henry James's April 1873 North American Review article on Theophile Gautier	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I heard from my mother a day or two since that your book is having...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	A Chance Acquaintance (fifth part)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I've just seen Aldrich's Marjory Daw in the Revue looking as natur...	Henry James	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Marjory Daw	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 September 1873, regarding Howells's A Chance Acquaintance (just published): "I ...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	A Chance Acquaintance	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in s...	Henry James	Henry James	Eugene Pickering	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: "I write more or less in the morni...	Henry James	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 May 1874: "Of Aldrich's tale, I'm sorry to say I've lost the thread, through mi...	Henry James	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	story	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 29 July 1874: "I cut out of the Galignani the other day, to send you, a paragraph ...	Henry James		wedding announcement	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemb...	Fanny Kemble	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 23 January 1875: " ... I have had nothing since my return to town that is worth yo...	Henry James	unknown	"dullish books"	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: "I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ......	Henry James	William Dean Howells	review of Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry James to E. C. Stedman, 1 September 1875: "My pretentions, in attenpting to talk about Tennyson [in review of Qu...	Henry James	Alfred Tennyson	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Loui...	John Drummond Erskine	Jean de La Bruyere	Les caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, avec des notes par M. Coste	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days...	John Drummond Erskine	John Sinclair	Observations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinclair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Her [Louise-Florence d'Epinay's] Memoirs I read years ago ..."	Henry James	Louise-Florence d'Epinay	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] vol...	Henry James	Countess Claire-Elisabeth de Remusat	Correspondence (vols 6 and 7)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as on...	Henry James	Anthony Trollope	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been readi...	Henry James	Ivan Turgenev	Senilia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	19 June 1884: Henry James writes (in French) to Alphonse Daudet about having read and enjoyed Daudet's Sapho.	Henry James	Alphonse Daudet	Sapho	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high apprec...	Henry James	Francis Parkman	Montcalm and Wolfe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Ca...	Henry James	James Anthony Froude	Life of Carlyle (concluding instalments)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it suc...	Henry James	Vernon Lee	Euphorion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: "I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..."	Henry James	Grace Norton	[unidentified articles]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: "I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's i...	Henry James	Robert Louis Stevenson	article	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..."	Henry James	Mrs Humphry Ward	Miss Bretherton	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: "Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... ...	Henry James	Henry James Sr and William James	The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James	Print: Book, Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 15 February 1885: "You don't tell me whether you had any rejoinder from Godkin to the le...	Henry James	E. L. Godkin	review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received ...	Henry James	Vernon Lee	Miss Brown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received ...	Henry James	Vernon Lee	Miss Brown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: " ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrou...	Henry James	Emile Zola	Germinal	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and deli...	Henry James	Guy de Maupassant	Bel-Ami	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 24 July 1885: "I read in the papers here of long and intense heat in the US ..."	Henry James		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon an...	Henry James	H. Rider Haggard	King Solomon's Mines	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon an...	Henry James	H. Rider Haggard	She	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: "I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial ...	Henry James	Thomas Carlyle	The Early Letters of Carlyle	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	The Minister's Charge	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: "I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen...	Henry James		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 't...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	article	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	23 February 1888: Henry James writes (in French) to Paul Bourget on having read and enjoyed Bourget's Mensonges.	Henry James	Paul Bourget	Mensonges	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "The incorporated society of authors ... gave a dinner the other ...	Henry James		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, jus...	Henry James	Edmund Gosse	Life of Congreve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: " ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballan...	Henry James	Robert Louis Stevenson	The Master of Ballantrae	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...	Rosamond Lehmann	Hans Andersen	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...	Rosamond Lehmann	Edith Nesbit		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...	Rosamond Lehmann	Comtesse de Segur	Les Petites Filles Mod?les	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...	Rosamond Lehmann		[adult novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"...	Rosamond Lehmann	Thomas Hardy	[poem in the London Mercury]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"...	Rosamond Lehmann	Rupert Brooke	[poem(s) in the London Mercury]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Rosamond Lehmann	Aldous Huxley		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Rosamond Lehmann	David Herbert Lawrence		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Rosamond Lehmann	William Alexander Gerhardi(e)		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century"...	Rosamond Lehmann		[nineteenth century fiction by women]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of...	Rosamond Lehmann	May Sinclair	Life and Death of Harriet Frean	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ...	Rosamond Lehmann	Virginia Woolf	Roger Fry: A Biography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ...	Rosamond Lehmann	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Through her old friendship with Stephen Tennant, Rosamond became devoted to his lover, Siegfried Sassoon, whose work ...	Rosamond Lehmann	Siegfried Sassoon		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Thomas Stearns Eliot		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Roy Fuller		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Wystan Hugh Auden		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Cecil Day Lewis		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	William Faulkner		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Ford Madox Ford		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Ivy Compton Burnett		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Sylvia Townsend Warner		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Elizabeth Bowen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Jean Rhys	Voyage in the Dark	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, u...	Rosamond Lehmann	Thomas Stearns Eliot	The Four Quartets	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar ...	John Drummond Erskine	William Jones	Grammar of the Persian Language, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Ra...	John Drummond Erskine	Francois Bernier	History of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chr...	Arnold Bennett		[reviews]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'And another early serial of mine, which he [Tillotson] bought, is just beginning in La Sera, of Milan. I had the adv...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Advertisement
	1900-1945	'I notice that Chatto is leaving "Hugo" out of his advertising list. . . . He has a permanent advertisement in today?...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Advertisement, Book
	1900-1945	'It ["Hugo"] was also left out of his [Andrew Chatto's] advt in the Times on Friday. Perhaps you can ascertain the re...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & ...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . ...	Arnold Bennett	Agnes Farley	Ashdod	Manuscript: typescript
	1900-1945	'Conrad?s book, though of course very distinguished, is not as good as his last.'	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	Secret Agent, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is ...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Harris	Bomb, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He [Frank Harris] has two or three books unpublished; including one on Shakespeare which is probably the most penetra...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Harris		Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'He [Waugh] told me he expected the book to keep on selling. You might give him to understand that the eyes of Europe ...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.'...	Arnold Bennett	W.L. George		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me th...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	Regent, The	Manuscript: manuscript of new novel (typescript?)
	1900-1945	'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I ...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	Journal	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'It ["The Price of Love"] and ?Sinister Street? were, he told me, the only works of fiction he [Henry James] had read ...	Henry James	Arnold Bennett	Price of Love, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I asked James if he had read Shaw?s Manifesto. He said "I have it here and have made several attempts, but his horri...	Henry James	G. B. Shaw	Common Sense about the War	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the ...	Arnold Bennett	Compton McKenzie	Sinister Street	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I return the draft contract. It seems to me that the alteration in clause 3 practically abolishes the stock rights...	Arnold Bennett		legal contract	Print: draft legal contract
	1900-1945	The contract is not entirely in my favour, and neither you nor any other experienced manager would be so foolish a...	Arnold Bennett		legal contract	Print: draft legal contract
	1900-1945	'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.'	Arnold Bennett	James Douglas		Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Man...	Daniel Bamford	Thomas Paine	Age of Reason	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	The Roll Call	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have received some copies of 'The Roll Call'. They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	The Roll Call	Manuscript: proofs
	1850-1899	In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stori...	Henry James	Vernon Lee	Hauntings	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Swinnerton feels sure that C & W would be willing to publish a new edition of "How to become an Author". I gave him ...	Frank Swinnerton	Arnold Bennett	How to Become an Author	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ......	Henry James	William Dean Howells	A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ......	Henry James	William Dean Howells	A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro."	Henry James	Guy de Maupassant	Notre Coeur	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real the...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	Lost Girl, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	In letter of 19 October 1890, Henry James writes (in French) to Urbain Mengin on having read Paul Bourget's new novel ...	Henry James	Paul Bourget	Coeur de Femme	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which ...	Henry James	Robert Louis Stevenson	Ballads	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your p...	Henry James	Robert Louis Stevenson	The South Seas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): "Since yesterday I have ... ...	Henry James	Robert Louis Stevenson	Ballads	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read the scenario of "The Old Wives" Tale.'	Arnold Bennett	unknown	Old Wives' Tale, The	Manuscript: Sheet, typescript film scenario
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshnes...	Henry James	William James	Principles of Psychology	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor...	Henry James	Edmund Gosse	Preface to Vol 1 of Ibsen, Works	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor...	Henry James	Henrik Ibsen	Rosmersholm	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor...	Henry James	Henrik Ibsen	Ghosts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'	Algernon Methuen Marshall	Arnold Bennett	Mr Prohack	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a...	Arnold Bennett			Print: Advertisement
	1850-1899	'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice'	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	The Merchant of Venice	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'.	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine s...	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ...	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	Henry IV	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, whi...	Henry James	Marcelin Marbot	Memoires	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of s...	Henry James	Robert Louis Stevenson	Across the Plains	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 July 1892: "Have you read any of ... [Paul Bourget's] novels? If you haven't, ...	Henry James	Paul Bourget	La Terre promise	Manuscript: Sheet, proofs
	1850-1899	Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: "It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day ...	Henry James	Robert Louis Stevenson	Island Nights	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 November 1893: "The two beautiful volumes of dear J[ames] R[ussell] L[owell] c...	Henry James	James Russell Lowell	Letters of James Russell Lowell	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James, in 28 January 1894 letter to John Hay, explains how he learned of the manner of the death of Constance Fe...	Henry James		cutting from Venetian newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discuss...	Henry James	Alice James	The Diary of Alice James	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: " ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed...	Henry James	George Meredith	Lord Ormont and His Aminta	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James, in letter of 13 December 1894 to Edmund Gosse, returns, and discusses reading (with enthusiasm) Gosse's a...	Henry James	Edmund Gosse	"paper on Pater"	Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- intere...	Henry James	Horatio Brown	Memoir of John Addington Symonds	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [...	Henry James	Alphonse Daudet	Petite Paroisse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [...	Henry James	Alphonse Daudet	Sapho	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [...	Henry James	Alphonse Daudet	L'Immortel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I find the political situation here very interesting an...	Henry James		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."	Henry James		Debats	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."	Henry James		Temps	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 February 1876: "Why won't you tell me the name of the author of the very charmi...	Henry James	anon	Review of Henry James, Roderick Hudson	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Alice James, 22 February, 1876: "Of course you have read Daniel Deronda, and I hope you have enjoyed it...	Henry James	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entert...	Henry James	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Life	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing a...	Henry James	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to sto...	Henry Sidgwick	Henry James	Roderick Hudson	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Alice James, 2 March 1877: "It is very late at night and I am in the delightful great drawingroom of th...	Henry James		magazines	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs John Rollin Tilton, 3 April 1878: " ... even in Rome I could not have done more than piangere over ...	Henry James		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878: "I have lately been reading Burkhardt's Renaissance and feeling...	Henry James	Jacob Burkhardt	The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th...	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	The Merchant of Venice	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	Henry IV, Part II	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	As You Like It	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud ...	George Henry Lewes	Thomas [?] Knight	[studies of Shakespeare]	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f...	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off'	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	Twelfth Night	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 p...	John Drummond Erskine	John Wheatley	Remarks on currency and commerce	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	A Winter's Tale	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'G. read Richard III'.	George Henry Lewes	William Shakespeare	Richard III	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (\| or *) in the text, to highlight point...	John Drummond Erskine	William Jones	Poeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo Jones	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These ...	John Drummond Erskine	Horace	Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira Romana	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, app...	Henry James		Visitors' books	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back ...	Henry James		American newspaper telegrams	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t...	Henry James	William James	article on "Brute and Human Intellect"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t...	Henry James	William James	article	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says '...	Henry James	Henry James	Daisy Miller	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my l...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	The Lady of the Aroostook	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it...	Henry James	Henry James Sr	[book]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: "I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jule...	Henry James	Jules Valles	Jacques Vingtras	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: "I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they sho...	Henry James	Henry James	review of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-Beuve	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the su...	Henry James	Wiliam Dean Howells	The Undiscovered Country	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but y...	Henry James	unknown	[extracted texts]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered,...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	The Undiscovered Country	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "I read in theTimes that you are roasting alive in the U.S.A. ..."	Henry James		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two ...	Henry James	Charles Eliot Norton	Historical Studies of Church Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florence	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 16 March 1881: "I have of course read Grant Allen in the March Atlantic and think ...	Henry James	Grant Allen	article (?in response to work by William James)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: "I won't forego the ...	Henry James	Wiliam Dean Howells	Dr. Breen's Practice	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Leon Edel notes: "In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before...	Henry James	Henry James	Daisy Miller	Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "I see in the last Academy that you have never seen the magazin...	Henry James		The Academy	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "Of the articles in the Saturday Review and Punam's Monthly [ap...	Henry James		The Saturday Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late fo...	Henry James	William James	letter to Henry James Sr	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: "I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in wh...	Henry James	G. W. Smalley	article on American novels	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in la...	Henry James	George Pellew	dissertation on Jane Austen's novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex....	Francis Wemyss	Mostyn John Armstrong	Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, ... also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, ...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time repl...	William Edwin Adams	[n/a]	Weekly Dispatch	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time re...	William Edwin Adams	[n/a]	The Examiner	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ...	William Edwin Adams	[n/a]	Chambers's Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ...	William Edwin Adams	Charles Knight	Penny Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ...	William Edwin Adams	[n/a]	Family Herald	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ...	William Edwin Adams	G.W.M. Reynolds	Reynolds's Miscellany	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which...	William Edwin Adams	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which...	William Edwin Adams	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which...	William Edwin Adams	anon	Arabian Nights	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of...	William Edwin Adams	William Shakespeare	[plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin...	William Edwin Adams	Eliot Warburton	Crescent and the Cross	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin...	William Edwin Adams	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their o...	William Edwin Adams	Edward Young	The Complaint: or night thoughts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from ...	William Edwin Adams	John Cobbett	Cobbett's Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from ...	William Edwin Adams	John Cassell	Popular Educator	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with ...	William Edwin Adams	Thomas Paine	The Rights of Man	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It w...	William Edwin Adams	[n/a]	Morning Star	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from ...	John Drummond Erskine	Bernard de Montfaucon	Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys,	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also...	Magdalene Erskine	Bernard de Montfaucon	Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i...	George Henry Lewes	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'	George Henry Lewes	William Wordsworth	Excursion, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory noti...	Henry James	unknown	review of Barrett Wendell's critical study of Shakespeare	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory noti...	Henry James	Barrett Wendell	critical study of Shakespeare	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Francis Boott, 11 October 1895: 'This is but a p.s. of three lines to the letter I posted to you yester...	Henry James		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratef...	Henry James	Edward Holton James	two stories	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James, in 25 July 1896 letter to Edmund Gosse, praises Pierre Louys' novel "Aphrodite: moeurs antiques", which h...	Henry James	Pierre Louys	Aphrodite: moeurs antiques	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '"Rome" is of a [italics] lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at t...	Henry James	Emile Zola	Rome	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August]...	Henry James	Alphonse Daudet	article on death of Edmond de Goncourt	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James writes (in French) to Maurice Barres, in praise of "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort", a copy of which...	Henry James	Maurice Barres	Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort	Print: Book
	1850-1899	In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afterno...	Henry James	Edward Fitzgerald	Letters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James thanks Arthur Christopher Benson for letting him borrow and read his 'Diary', in letter of 1 October 1897:...	Henry James	Arthur Christopher Benson	Diary	Unknown
	1800-1849	Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on s...	Agnes Halkerston	James Duncan	Scotch itinerary, containing the roads through Scotland on an new plan, with copious observations for the entertainment of travellers, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 20 April 1898: 'I scarcely know what the newpapers say [about the Spanish-American war] ...	Henry James		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Antonio de Navarro, 15 June 1898: 'Well, my dear Tony, I have read your ms. [...] It is Hans Andersenes...	Henry James	Antonio de Navarro	MS story	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ...	William Henry Davies	unknown	[Penny Dreadfuls]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ...	William Henry Davies	Walter Scott	[from 'The Lady of the Lake']	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ...	William Henry Davies	unknown	'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ...	William Henry Davies	William Shakespeare	[extracts in school textbook]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ...	William Henry Davies	unknown	[didactic poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...	William Henry Davies	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...	William Henry Davies	Percy Bysshe Shelley		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...	William Henry Davies	Christopher Marlowe		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...	William Henry Davies	William Shakespeare	[works not reproduced in schoolbooks]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...	William Henry Davies	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...	[Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s...	William Henry Davies	unknown	Freddie's Friend	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s...	William Henry Davies	unknown	Little Billie's Button	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s...	William Henry Davies	unknown	Sally's Sacrifice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of reading Pierre Louys' novel "La Femme...	Henry James	Pierre Louys	La Femme et le Pantin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Ma...	Henry James	Matilda Serao	[unidentified novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Minnie Bourget, 8 April 1899: 'I have been reading "Jean d'Agreve" with a mixture of recognitions and r...	Henry James	E.M. De VogÃ¼Ã©	Jean d'Agreve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you hav...	Henry James	J. W. Mackail	The Life of William Morris	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is...	Henry James	Mrs Everard Cotes	His Honour and a Lady	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 29 January 1900: 'It was very graceful of you to send me your book -- I mean the particula...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	The Time Machine	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ...	Henry James	Katherine Prescott Wormeley	MS notes to Balzac's Letters	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ...	Henry James	Katherine Prescott Wormeley	Preface [on Balzac]	Print: proof
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ...	Henry James	Honore de Balzac	Un Roman d'Amour	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ...	Henry James	Honore de Balzac	Lettres a l'Etrangere	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Paul Bourget, 15 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his collection of tales, Drames de Famille: 'I have...	Henry James	Paul Bourget	Drames de Famille	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Mrs William James, 22 May 1900: 'Thank you [...] for telling me of Santayana's book (P. and R.) which h...	Henry James	George Santayana	Interpretations of Poetry and Religion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Ford Madox Hueffer, 23 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his newly published volume of verse: 'I think...	Henry James	Ford Madox Hueffer	Poems for Pictures	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	Ragged Lady	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	Their Silver Wedding Journey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story)	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 9 August 1901: 'You speak of your "Cornhill" article as one always speaks and feel...	Henry James	W. Morton Fullerton	article	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short ta...	Henry James	William Dean Howells	A Pair of Patient Lovers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, 5 October 1901: 'Let me not [...] delay to thank you for your charming and generous ...	Henry James	Sarah Orne Jewett	The Tory Lover	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I ...	Henry James	Rudyard Kipling	Kim	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, s...	Henry James	Graham Balfour	Life of Robert Louis Stevenson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Owen Wister, 7 August 1902: 'I have been reading "The Virginian" and I am moved to write to you. You d...	Henry James	Owen Wister	The Virginian	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read "The Valley of Decisio...	Henry James	Edith Wharton	The Valley of Decision	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediatel...	Henry James	unknown	article on Zola	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long y...	Henry James	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	The Morgesons	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long y...	Henry James	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	Two Men	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered "Italie...	Henry James	Urbain Mengin	Italie des Romantiques	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"]...	Henry James	Howard Sturgis	Belchamber	Print: In proof
	1900-1945	Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"]...	Henry James	Howard Sturgis	A Sketch from Memory	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to Viscount Garnet Wolseley, 7 December 1903: 'I feel I must absolutely not have passed these several last...	Henry James	Viscount Garnet Wolseley	The Story of a Soldier's Life	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to ...	Henry James	Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson	[book on Greek history]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted t...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	Mankind in the Making	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted t...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	Twelve Stories and a Dream	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to yo...	Henry James	Edith Wharton	The House of Mirth (second instalment)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to "The House of Mirth": 'Half an hour ago,...	Henry James	Edith Wharton	The House of Mirth (final instalment)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munif...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	A Modern Utopia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munif...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	Kipps	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three wee...	Henry James	William James	[Unidentified recently published writings]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Henry James to Paul Bourget 21 December 1905, thanking him for copy of "Les Deux Soeurs": 'This volume I read with imm...	Henry James	Paul Bourget	Les Deux Soeurs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906: 'I left home at Christmas for a few weeks' stay, which became a ...	Henry James	Ralph Gordon Noel King, second Earl of Lovelace	Astarte	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906, thanking him for a copy of "Astarte", Lovelace's account of his ...	Henry James	various	Byron family papers	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired "The Mirror of the Sea".	Henry James	Joseph Conrad	The Mirror of the Sea	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 8 November 1906: 'I came back last night from five days in London to find your so generous...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	The Future in America	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having enjoyed his "Etudes et Portr...	Henry James	Paul Bourget	Etudes et portraits	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having read his article on Ferdinan...	Henry James	Paul Bourget	article on Ferdinand Brunetiere	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907: 'you sent me Mrs. Phelps Ward's contribution to the "Whole Family" -- whi...	Henry James	Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward	The Whole Family (chapter)	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907, in response to her question about his favourite fairy stories when a chil...	Henry James	various	[unidentified book of fairy stories]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Clare Benedict, 13 September 1907: 'Returning to this place [Lamb House, Rye] early in July after a lon...	Henry James	Clare Benedict	"Roderick Eaton's Children"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston For...	Johnston Forbes-Robertson	Henry James	"Covering End"	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [....	Henry James	William James	Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [....	Henry James	William James	journal articles on psychology	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read "The Fruit [of the Tree", in copy sent by Wharton][...] w...	Henry James	Edith Wharton	The Fruit of the Tree	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I "read," in a manner, "Maradick" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and ...	Henry James	Hugh Walpole	Maradick at Forty	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book repre...	Henry James	Hugh Walpole	Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreci...	Henry James	Josiah Royce	Phi Beta address on the work and influence of William James	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the "Standard" [containing Walpole's review of...	Henry James	Hugh Walpole	review of Henry James, The Outcry	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in ...	Henry James	unknown	"the Green Book"	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but ...	Henry James	Mrs W. K. Clifford	The Getting Well of Dorothy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 19 May 1912: 'A. Benett [sic] I've never to this day beheld -- and certain [italics]Ameri...	Henry James	Arnold Bennett	articles	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinbu...	Henry James	Edmund Gosse	life of Swinburne	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912: 'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Let...	Henry James	George Meredith	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912: 'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Let...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	Marriage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 18 October 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'you may not have forgotten that you kind...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	Marriage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for yo...	Henry James	Edmund Gosse	Portraits and Sketches	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two ...	Henry James	Andrew Lang	The Maid of France, being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne d'Arc	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two ...	Henry James	Andrew Lang	compendium of English literature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book ["The Reef: A Nove...	Henry James	Edith Wharton	The Reef: A Novel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 11 April 1913: 'I have [...] read -- with difficulty -- another Young Fiction of the day...	Henry James	Gilbert Cannan	Round the Corner	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913: 'I have been reading over Tolstoi's interminable "Peace and War" [sic] an...	Henry James	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 21 September 1913, thanking him for a copy of his new novel, "The Passionate Friends": 'I ...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	The Passionate Friends	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 14 October 1913: 'I have just been re-reading over Tolstoi'.	Henry James	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Andre Raffalovich, 7 November 1913: 'I thank you very kindly indeed for the volume of [Aubrey] Beardsle...	Henry James	Aubrey Beardsley	The Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[tr...	Henry James	Compton Mackenzie	Sinister Street (vol.1)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[tr...	Henry James	Compton Mackenzie	Carnival	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to William Roughead, 29 January 1914:'I devoured the tender Mary Blandy [subject of one of Roughead's chro...	Henry James	William Roughead	chronicle of trial of Mary Blandy	Unknown
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 5 February 1914: 'I have the volume [one by Walpole] (since last night), and shall attack...	Henry James	Joseph Conrad	Chance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James, in letter of 19 August 1914, thanks Edith Wharton for 'D'Annunzio's frenchified ode', which he has appare...	Henry James	Gabriele D'Annunzio	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton M...	Henry James	Compton Mackenzie	Sinister Street (vol 2)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 November 1914: '[H. G.] Wells has published a mere flat tiresomeness ("Sir Isaac Harma...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	Sir Isaac Harman's Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's health...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's health...	Henry James	Arnold Bennett	critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The...	Henry James		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The...	Henry James		The Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Henry James to Edward Marsh, 28 March 1915: 'I take it very kindly indeed of you to have found thought and time to sen...	Henry James	Rupert Brooke	sonnets	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I hav...	Henry James	Margot Asquith	Diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	Henry James to H. G. Wells, 6 July 1915: 'I was given yesterday at a club your volume "Boon, etc.", from a loose leaf ...	Henry James	H. G. Wells	Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump	Print: Book
	1600-1699	[Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be...	Johannes [ie John] Chrystie	John Middleton	The laws and acts of the first Parliament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376...	Magdalene Erskine	Mariano Vasi	Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ?	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men...	Daniel Bamford	Thomas Paine	Rights of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men...	Daniel Bamford	[unknown]	[theological works]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleri...	John Drummond Erskine	Andrew Fuller	An apology for the late Christian missions to India	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points o...	John Drummond Erskine	John Richardson	Grammar of the Arabick language in which the rules are illustrated by authorities from the best writers; principally adapted for the service of the Honourable East India Company	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ...	William Edwin Adams	[n/a]	[penny bloods]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English,...	John Marsh	Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	[plays]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ...	John Marsh	John Campbell	The Universal History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ...	John Marsh	Rapin de Thoyras	History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ...	John Marsh	John Dryden	Virgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the Georgics	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ...	John Marsh	Voltaire	Histoire de Charles XII	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ...	John Marsh	Francois Fenelan	Les Aventures de Telemaque	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ...	John Marsh	Alain Rene le Sage	Diable Boiteaux	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ...	John Marsh	Virgil	Eneid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ...	John Marsh	William Blackstone	Commentaries on the laws of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ...	John Marsh	Oliver Goldsmith	History of England from the earliest times to the death of George II	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?t...	John Marsh	Richard Graves	The spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing...	John Marsh	members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M.	Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made easie	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to...	John Marsh	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon becam...	John Marsh	Thomas Burnett	Theory of the Earth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'.	John A. Carlyle	Hume	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused ...	John Marsh	Richard Walter	Anson's Voyage round the World	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & M...	John Marsh	[n/a]	The Lounger	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflec...	John Marsh	[n/a]	Star, The	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and ...	John Marsh	Thomas Paine	Rights of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ...	John Marsh	James Ferguson	His Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Principles	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ...	John Marsh	John Bonnycastle	An introduction to astronomy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, th...	John Marsh	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her ...	Fanny Kemble	Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ...	Fanny Kemble	Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ...	Fanny Kemble	unknown	German fable	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat...	Fanny Kemble	anon	theatre reviews	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat...	Fanny Kemble	anon	theatre review in The Mirror	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'.	Fanny Kemble	Grahame	History of America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties....	Francis William Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene...	Edward Austen Knight	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin...	Fanny Kemble	Benjamin Disraeli	Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - w...	Fanny Knight	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselve...	Fanny Kemble	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the ...	Anna Lefroy	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs James Austen, very much pleased. Enjoyed Mrs Norris particularly, & the scene at Portsmouth. Thought Henry Craw...	Anne Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after ...	Fanny Kemble	Benjamin Disraeli	Contarini Fleming	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.'	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rus...	Cassandra Elizabeth Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...	Fanny Kemble	Alfieri	Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...	Fanny Kemble	Washington Irving	A Tour on the Prairies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr B.L. - Highly pleased with Fanny Price - & a warm admirer of the Portsmouth Scene. - Angry with Edmund for not be...	Benjamin Lefroy	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...	Fanny Kemble	Dr Combe	Principles of Physiology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...	Fanny Kemble	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...	Fanny Kemble	Christopher Marlowe	Doctor Faustus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Fanny Cage - did not much like it - not to be compared to P. & P. - nothing interesting in the Characters - Language ...	Fanny Cage	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...	Fanny Kemble	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...	Fanny Kemble	Jeremy Taylor	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'.	Fanny Kemble		The Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The families at Deane - all pleased with it. Mrs Anna Harwood delighted with Mrs Norris & the green curtain.'	Anna Harwood	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my Germa...	Fanny Kemble	unknown	German text/s	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.'	John Marsh	Erasmus Darwin	Zoonomia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble, 20 April 1846: 'My friend has given me a charming little Sicilian song, of which the following is a free...	Fanny Kemble	Anon	[Sicilian song]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Socie...	John Marsh	Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan	A View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among the Alps	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover wher...	John Marsh	C B E Naubert	Hermann of Unna	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"...	John Marsh	Ann Radcliffe	A Sicilian Romance	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"...	John Marsh	Carl Philipp Moritz	Travels of a German through England in 1782	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"...	John Marsh	Carl Philipp Moritz	Travels of a German through England in 1782	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ...	John Marsh	[unknown]	Life of Pope Sixtus V	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ...	John Marsh	[unknown]	Life of Pope Sixtus V	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa...	John Marsh	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o...	John Marsh	Voltaire	Candide	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o...	John Marsh	William Godwin	Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Cale...	John Marsh	William Godwin	Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach ...	John Marsh	Richard Cumberland	Henry	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. ...	John Marsh	Benvenuto Cellini	The life of Benvenuto Cellini	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (...	John Marsh	Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (...	John Marsh	George Keate	Sketches from nature, taken and coloured on a journey to Margate	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Monday the 30th we went in the coach with... Mr Norman, with whom we dined at the Bolt & Tun, where John & I spent...	John Marsh	Matthew Lewis	The Monk	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I on Friday the 16th went up in the coach to consult Mess'rs Bridges, Blake & other friends upon the matter, taking w...	John Marsh	Agnes Maria Bennett	The beggar girl and her benefactors	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my nov...	John Marsh	[unknown]	[a novel]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room...	John Marsh	Alain-Rene Le Sage	The history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merry Bachelor	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red ...	John Marsh	[anon]	Maria or The Vicarage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use.....	Charles Manby Smith	[unknown]	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we...	Charles Manby Smith	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having now occasion to go into Kent on business, I on Friday the 10th. went in the coach with Mr Chaldecott and 4 oth...	John Marsh	Isaac d'Israeli	Varien; or Sketches of the Times	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac...	John Marsh	Charlotte Smith	The Young Philosopher	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac...	John Marsh	Jane West	The History of Ned Evans	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers h...	Frances Burney		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality i...	Captain Frank Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.'	[Mrs Francis] Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.'	Cassandra Elizabeth Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself. Mr Knightley delightful. Should like ...	Fanny Knight	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to ...	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Fanny Cage - liked it very much indeed & classed it between P & P & M.P.'	Fanny Cage	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of ...	[Countess] Craven	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character...	Henry Sanford	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Countess Morley - delighted with it.'	[Countess] Morley	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others. -The Characters...	Benjamin Lefroy	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.'	Francis Jeffrey	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most ex...	Henry Crabb Robinson	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human l...	Henry Crabb Robinson	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's "Deerbrook", a capital novel though it is too full of...	Henry Crabb Robinson	Harriet Martineau	Deerbrook	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was reading yesterday and to-day "Sense and Sensibility", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume gre...	Henry Crabb Robinson	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have...	Henry Crabb Robinson	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have...	Henry Crabb Robinson	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading "Emma". Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something. There is a want of...	John Henry Newman	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl...	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl...	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Laplace	Mecanique Celeste	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of...	Frances Burney	unknown	[sermons]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. S...	Frances Burney	John Moore	View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Ja...	Samuel Langhorne Clemens	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our f...	John Marsh	Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges	Arthur Fitz-Albani	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended...	John Marsh	[Anon]	The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell you	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very li...	John Marsh	[n/a]	[local newspaper]	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when re...	John Marsh	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...'	Francis William Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K.	Edward Austen Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.'	Anna Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny'	Anna Austen	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.'	Cassandra Elizabeth Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.'	Fanny Cage	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very...	[Countess] Craven	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Stephen Duck's habits in reading whilst working, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Ste...	Stephen Duck		The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Queen Caroline's discovery of the poetry of Stephen Duck, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Accou...	Queen Caroline	Stephen Duck	poems	Unknown
	1800-1849	James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ...	James Dawson Burn	Chevalier Ramsay	Life of Cyrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actua...	John Harris	Henry Kirke White	The Remains of Henry Kirke White	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley...	Benjamin Brierley	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley...	Benjamin Brierley	Robert Burns		Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ...	Benjamin Brierley	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ...	Benjamin Brierley	Robert Burns		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English: '"Borrowing...	John Clare		'Spelling Book' (grammar)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten ...	Catherine Dawson Scott	Charlotte Mew	"The Farmer's Bride"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff litt...	Sydney Cockerell	Charlotte Mew	The Farmer's Bride	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred...	Wilfred Scawen Blunt	Charlotte Mew	The Farmer's Bride	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate...	Florence Hardy	Charlotte Mew	The Farmer's Bride	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo...	Sydney Cockerell	Charlotte Mew	"Sea Love"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentleme...	Caroline Frances Anne Mew	Anita Loos	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read ...	Florence Hardy	Thomas Hardy	Memoirs	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".'	Reginald Heber	Felicia Dorothea Browne	War and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fifteen	Unknown
	1700-1799	?Pray, said Mr Thrale, do you read much?? ?When I can meet with large Print,? answered the old Gentleman. ?Did you e...	Henry Thrale	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, h...	Frances Burney	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I come here we play at battlecock and shuttledore and mama reads Shakespear in the evening[.] When she goes with...	Henrietta Frances Ponsonby	Shakespeare	unknown	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Ask Miss Trimmer when it is have you done Clarissa you will be surprised to see so many little dabs of Letters, but i...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put t...	Frances Burney		Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Song. Tune, Black Joke.	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whal...	Frances Burney	Whalley	Edwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five Parts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?"She has heard a great deal of you, ? & has seen some of your Letters" . . . I am [ital] very [ital] much concerned, ...	Anne Leigh	Frances Burney	[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'You may lately have seen her pretty often alluded to in the Morning Post, ?but pray who is the [ital] Dr. B [ital] in...	Frances Burney		Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Newton	Dissertations of the Prophecies with the Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Sherlock	Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus...	Lady Caroline Lamb	David Hume	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus...	Lady Caroline Lamb	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]'	Lady Caroline Lamb	Lady Georgiana Morpeth	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ride...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Faustina Maratti Zappi	Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I...	Lady Caroline Lamb	William Robertson	History of Scotland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like ext...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Elizabeth Hamilton	Memoirs of Modern Philosophers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We have all been reading le Siege de la Rochelle. As I leave others to make their own remarks, I shall only tell you...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Stephanie de Genlis	Le Siege de la Rochelle, ou le malheur et la conscience	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Felicia Hemans to John Lodge, July 1831, on visit to Woodstock, Ireland: 'Amongst other persons of the party was Mr He...	Henry Tighe	Felicia Hemans	"The Graves of a Household"	Unknown
	1800-1849	Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, ...	Joanna Baillie	Felicia Hemans	American edition comprising two collections of poetical works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Sir John Moore	A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year disc...	Lady Caroline Lamb (nee Ponsonby)	Mary Wollstonecraft	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Mary Wollstonecraft	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that lang...	Lady Caroline Lamb	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not thin...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Childe Harold I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with &...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"perchance my dog will whine in vain "Till fed my stranger hands-- "But long e'er I come back again "he'd tear me ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & h...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Jacques Cazotte	Le diable amoreux	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pr...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage [probably]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pr...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Crabbe	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Bride of Abydos	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Corsair	Print: Book, Unknown
	1800-1849	'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lines to a Lady Weeping	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister. They talk of you in a mann...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Trist...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke o...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Choderlos de Laclos	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never m...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Robert Southey	Madoc	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I reall...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Giaour	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'.	Lady Caroline Lamb	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Walter Scott	Waverly	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did n...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Hebrew Melodies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Hebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty"	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murr...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Stanzas to Augusta	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Homer	unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Dante Alighieri	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Virgil	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	John Milton	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	John Dryden	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Edmund Spenser	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Gray	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Oliver Goldsmith	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Toquato Tasso	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Beppo	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Jonathan Swift	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Beppo	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I know that during Elections songs & squibs are fair on each side & much bad wit & many severe things must be said--b...	Lady Caroline Lamb		The Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affe...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Amelia Opie	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather t...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Mathew (Monk) Lewis	The Monk	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels c...	Arnold Bennett	Silas Hocking	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'With the Marriotts, Bennett found himself among friends. This was a cultured household, with musical evenings, improv...	Arnold Bennett	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese st...	Lady Caroline Lamb	unknown	Shadows in the Water	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese st...	Lady Caroline Lamb	unknown	[chinese story]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my o...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Wallenstein	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passin...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Moore	Lalla Rookh	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and l...	Lady Caroline Lamb	J.G. Lockhart	Some Passages is the Life of Mr. Adam Blair	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful eff...	Arnold Bennett	Karl Baedeker	[guidebook on Florence]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'They would talk French, eat in French restaurants, read French newspapers and visit the British Museum together.'	Arnold Bennett		[French newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'"drudge like Selden days & nights And in the Endless labour die"'.	Lady Caroline Lamb	Richard Bentley	A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II Book III of Horace.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Wo...	Lady Caroline Lamb	William Godwin	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	[Memoirs]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.	Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke)	Lady Caroline Lamb	[letters and verses]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'From fine I turned to applied art, diverted by a periodical called The Girl's Own Paper. For a long period this month...	Arnold Bennett		Girl's Own	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	[reminiscing about the Ugly Duckling, first story he remembers reading when he was 6 or so] 'When the ugly duckling at...	Arnold Bennett	Anon	Ugly Duckling	Print: Book
		'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workho...	Arnold Bennett	William Shaw	When I was a child, recollections from an old potter	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Arnold Bennett's father] 'encouraged them to read. As soon as he had any money he began to buy books, and one of the ...	Arnold Bennett	unknown	various	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr...	Arnold Bennett	Ouida	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr...	Arnold Bennett	Emile Zola	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a "humorous con...	Arnold Bennett	Grant Allen	What's bred in the bone	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend...	Arnold Bennett	Henry James	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend...	Arnold Bennett	Thomas Hardy	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend...	Arnold Bennett	George Paston	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend...	Arnold Bennett	H G Wells	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.'	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of ficti...	Arnold Bennett	George Moore	A Mummer's Wife	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.'	Arnold Bennett	George Moore	A Mummer's Wife	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.	George Henry Lewes	[unknown]	Seraphime	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I waited with much impatience for the "Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbo...	John Playfair		The Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I have lately seen a posthumous work of Condorcet's; it is a very curious bo...	John Playfair	Condorcet	[unidentified posthumously-published work]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, a...	The Honourable Caroline Howe	unknown	Classical Greek texts	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, a...	The Honourable Caroline Howe	unknown	Latin texts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	[Greek]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Matthew Gregory Lewis	The Monk: a romance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'.	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Anacreon	[odes]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Edward du Bois	St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Count Reginald St. Leon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p...	Lawrence Durrell	William Makepeace Thackeray	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p...	Lawrence Durrell	Robert Smith Surtees	[probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of...	Lawrence Durrell	Rudyard Kipling	Kim	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of...	Lawrence Durrell	George Alfred Henty	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of...	Lawrence Durrell	Robert Michael Ballantyne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of...	Lawrence Durrell	Henry Rider Haggard	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of...	Lawrence Durrell	John Buchan	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le ...	Lawrence Durrell	[n/a]	Le Figaro	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	Aldous Huxley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	H.G. Wells	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name]	Death of a Hero	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name]	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	Edith Sitwell	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	unknown Nichols	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	Siegfried Sassoon	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	Robert Graves	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	Thomas Stearns Eliot	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ...	Lawrence Durrell	David Herbert Lawrence	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'	Lawrence Durrell	Francois Rabelais	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'	Lawrence Durrell	Francois Villon	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'	Lawrence Durrell	Charles Pierre Baudelaire	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'	Lawrence Durrell	Arthur Rimbaud	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc...	Lawrence Durrell	Sigmund Freud	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc...	Lawrence Durrell	Havelock Ellis	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc...	Lawrence Durrell	Norman Haire	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas...	Lawrence Durrell	Philip Sidney	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas...	Lawrence Durrell	Christopher Marlowe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas...	Lawrence Durrell	Thomas Nashe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas...	Lawrence Durrell	Robert Greene	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas...	Lawrence Durrell	Cyril Tourneur	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas...	Lawrence Durrell	Peel	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.	Lawrence Durrell	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.	Lawrence Durrell	William Butler Yeats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.	Lawrence Durrell	Edward Fitzgerald	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ...	Lawrence Durrell	Jean Jacques Rousseau	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ...	Lawrence Durrell	Percy Wyndham Lewis	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ...	Lawrence Durrell	Remy de Gourmont	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ...	Lawrence Durrell	Donatien Alphonse-Fran?ois de Sade	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ...	Lawrence Durrell	Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing	[probably] Psychopathia Sexualis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ...	Lawrence Durrell	David Herbert Lawrence	Sea and Sardinia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ...	Lawrence Durrell	George Norman Douglas	South Wind	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Barclay Hudson, an American living near by, lent him a new novel to read. It was published in Paris by the Obelisk Pr...	Lawrence Durrell	Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the wrongs of woman.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Posthumous works.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Mary Wollstonecraft	Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the rights of woman	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Zastrozzi'.	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Zastrozzi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish St Leon.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Wiiliam Godwin	St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Caleb Williams.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Wiiliam Godwin	Things as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be...	John Stuart Mill	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours...	John Stuart Mill	anon	The Annual Register	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'He ['my father'] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum...	John Stuart Mill	Philip Beaver	African memoranda relative to an attempt to establish a British settlement on the island of Bulama, on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1792. With a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Gilbert Burnet	History of my Own Time	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum...	John Stuart Mill	Collins	[account of the first settlement of New South Wales]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'At that time [?my eighth year?] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I ...	John Stuart Mill	Diogenes Laertius	Lives of the Philosophers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Robert Watson	History of the Reign of Philip II	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Robert Watson	History of Philip III	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours...	John Stuart Mill	William Robertson	Histories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	David Hume	The History of England (presumably)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Nathaniel Hooke	Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Charles Rollin	Ancient History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Herodotus	Histories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Isocrates	Ad Nicoclem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Isocrates	Ad Demonicum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Lucian		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Xenophon	Cyropaedia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Xenophon	Memorials of Socrates	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be...	John Stuart Mill	Xenophon	The Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...	John Stuart Mill	Plato	Euthyphro	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...	John Stuart Mill	Plato	Theaetetus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...	John Stuart Mill	Plato	dialogues	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	John Millar	Historical View of the English Government	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	John Rutty	History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	William Sewell	The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	Johann Lorenz von Mosheim	An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	Thomas McCrie	Life of John Knox	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'About this period, Mr Tymms sent down for inspection the proof of his Acct. of Northamptonshire for the Family Topogr...	John Cole	Tymms	Family Topographer	Print: Proof
	1800-1849	'... I took up a London paper, and the first object in it which struck my eye, was the death of Charles Lamb. I felt i...	John Cole	anon	newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read letter from Rev R Garvey of Lincoln (?) reps. Lecture'.	John Cole	R Garvey	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Craster letter received'..	John Cole	unknown	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Day wet - read'.	John Cole	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Scriptures and Natural history readings'.	John Cole		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In this month read Poems by one of the authors and Poems for youth. By a family circle.'	John Cole	unknown	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the month in Honitt's "Book of the seasons".'	John Cole	Honitt	Book of the seasons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Playfair to Mary Berry, from Cambridge, 28 September 1804: 'In going into a great library, it often occurs to...	John Playfair		Theatrum Cometicum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of M...	John B. S. Morritt	Philip Massinger	The Duke of Milan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads ve...	John B. S. Morritt	Philip Massinger	The Duke of Milan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having ...	John B. S. Morritt	Philip Massinger	The Fatal Dowry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he...	The Rev. Sydney Smith	Mary Berry	Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he...	The Rev. Sydney Smith	Mary Berry	Life of Madame du Deffand	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very live...	Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales	unknown	[books of engravings]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, receiv...	John Playfair	Mary Berry	Preface and notes to Letters of Madame du Deffand	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, receiv...	John Playfair	Madame du Deffand	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 8 June 1811: 'Went to Lady Cork's. A curious party, where, by way of something to do, she had [J...	John Thelwall	John Milton	'Invocation to Light'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane.	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	William Godwin	Things as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Voltaire	Memoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Zadig.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Voltaire	Zadigi ou la destinee	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the life of Alfieri.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Victor Alfieri	Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the life of Alfieri'.	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Victor Alfieri	Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Louvets memoires'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read aloud to Jane.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read all evening.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read I don't know what.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Seward had been reading a five-volume edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, and she had confessed her irrit...	Anna Seward	Mary Wortley Montagu	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the div...	Catherine Talbot	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with ...	Frances Burney	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be w...	Elizabeth Singer Rowe	Alexander Pope	Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ...	Anna Seward	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ...	Anna Seward	John Milton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ...	Anna Seward	Mark Akenside	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ...	Anna Seward	Erasmus Darwin	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ...	Anna Seward	Thomas Gray	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h...	Anna Seward	Alexander Pope	Satires	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h...	Anna Seward	Alexander Pope	[Ethic Epistles]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h...	Anna Seward	Alexander Pope	Dunciad	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h...	Anna Seward	Alexander Pope	Essay on Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "po...	Anna Seward	Alexander Pope	Rape of the Lock, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Anne Damer, travelling in France, to Mary Berry, 24 April 1791, on encounter with de Broc, the mayor of Bayonne, 'the ...	Anne Damer	de Broc	A L'Orateur Fox	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There ...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Tobias Smollett	Complete History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Thomas Campbell	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Ossian (pseud.)	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Vittorio Alfieri	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	William Wordsworth	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Robert Southey	Madoc	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Maria Edgeworth	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	William Beckford	Vathek	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read a great deal, among her books being one called "Pride and Prejudice", "Which is at present the fashionable n...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	John Locke	Treatise on the Reasonableness of Christianity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Joseph Butler	Analogy of Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	J.C. de Sismondi	history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lara	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	J.C. de Sismondi	history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Jean Charles de Sismondi	Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Watson	[book on Philip of Spain]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	William Coxe	History of the House of Austria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	William Coxe	Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Rene Aubert de Vertot	[book(s) on Revolutions]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	[30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can ...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Robert Southey	Roderick	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'she was reading Dryden's "Don Sebastian", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angri...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	John Dryden	Don Sebastian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition'	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown Darwin	[article on 'Diseased Volition']	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'she was reading Leigh Hunt's "Rimini", and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni - evidently ...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Leigh Hunt	Rimini	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in July appeared the first part of "Don Juan". "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected", wrote An...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	The Giaour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Fare Thee Well	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[a Satire - on Annabella?]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chi...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Harriet Martineau	Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years ea...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Macdonald	Within and Without	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us "Amelie de Mansfeldt."'	Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales	Madame de Cottin	Amelie de Mansfeldt	Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm]. The Princess [?of Wal...	Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales	Madame de Cottin	Amelie de Mansfeldt	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read all evening'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the greek grammar'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read and work in the evening'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the morning and work'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the Greek grammar'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little in the Greek grammar'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a part of St Leon'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	William Godwin	St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Work and read in the evening'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Petronius	Satyricon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Louvet's memoirs all day'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Louvet's memoirs'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Write and read'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...	John Ellingham Brooks	John Henry, Cardinal Newman	[theological works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...	John Ellingham Brooks	George Meredith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...	John Ellingham Brooks	Walter Pater	Imaginary Portraits	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...	John Ellingham Brooks	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...	John Ellingham Brooks	Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Hon.J. W. Ward to Mary Berry, 11 May 1814: 'I have bought Mr Schlegel's book about the drama, which they have tran...	The Hon. J. W. Ward	Schlegel	work on drama	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 July 1819: 'Your "Life of Lady Russell," as far as my acquaintance extends, gives gen...	Joanna Baillie	Mary Berry	Life of Lady Russell	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's "Life of Marlborough;" the subject, in ...	The Hon. James Abercrombie	Coxe	Life of Marlborough	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 April 1828, acknowledging receipt, the previous day, of her copy of Berry's "The Comp...	Joanna Baillie	Mary Berry	Introduction to The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 9 June 1828: 'I have read your "View of the Social Life, &c.," twice; and it has lost no...	Joanna Baillie	Mary Berry	The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol.1)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, [1831]: 'I have just read your proof-sheet [of second volume of Berry's "Comparative Vie...	Joanna Baillie	Mary Berry	The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 2)	Print: In proof
	1800-1849	The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.'	Rev. Sydney Smith	Madame du Deffand	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the St...	Lord Francis Jeffrey	unknown	Catalogue of Strawberry Hill collections	Print: Book, catalogue
	1800-1849	Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable le...	Lord Francis Jeffrey	Mary Berry	Letter to Lord Francis Jeffrey	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j...	Lord Francis Jeffrey		The Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j...	Lord Francis Jeffrey	Thomas Babington Macaulay	article on Frederick of Prussia	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1843]: 'I saw a piece of news the other day, in which a gentleman made his good fortune k...	The Rev. Sydney Smith		Church appointment notice	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Palm Sunday Appropriate readings this week from Mant (?) [sic] &c.'	John Cole	Richard Mant	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Dr Sandford's lecture on Good Friday.'	John Cole	Dr Sanford	lecture on Good Friday	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read Butcher's Sermon "He is risen" &&'.	John Cole	Butcher	Sermon 'He is risen'	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Inspected Mr Dash's large collection of books.'	John Cole		various	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Evening - suitable readings'.	John Cole	unknown	['suitable readings']	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Observing a new entrance gate, inscribed Jesus' Hospital [underlined], we were invited to enter the gate, and discove...	John Cole	unknown	[Inscription over entrance gate]	Print: Incription on gate
	1800-1849	'Letters were at home awaiting me, intimating that John was about to leave Leamington.'	John Cole Jr	John Cole	letters	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'We are now reading at the tea table, Evan's Tourist.'	John Cole	Evans	Tourist	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Evan's Tourist. The vulgar pronunciation of Brumidgham is nearer the true derivation than the modern name of ...	John Cole	Evans	Tourist	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening a change came on, a slight thunderstorm, during which a beautiful rain-bow appeared, when we read Dr B...	John Cole	Belfrage	The Rainbow	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After the service we inspected the monument of Thomas Robinson... The Saviour appearing in the clouds with an open bo...	John Cole		[Scripture]	Print: Monument of Thomas Robinson, St Mary's Church, Leicester (Sculptor, Bacon)
	1800-1849	'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too wer...	John Cole	Clarke	Lake of Tiberias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too wer...	John Cole	King	Hymns	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "The Telegraph" in Evans.'	John Cole	Evans	The Telegraph
	1800-1849	'Read a letter of interest from G Danes Esq.'	John Cole	G Danes	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Read "Annals of my village" - the month.'	John Cole	Mary Roberts	Annals of my Village	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips' Personal tour.'	John Cole	Sir R Phillips	Personal Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the...	John Cole	anon	Wonders of the human body	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the...	John Cole	Pulley	Etymological compendium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Natural History of Rabbit. On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my frie...	John Cole	Rhind	Natural history of the Rabbit	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston].	John Cole	James [?] Edmeston	The penny magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read in Phillips' Tour. He writes "Bedford presents 'objects of exhaustless eulogy' when referring to the different c...	John Cole	Phillips	Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Continued "Wonders of the human body" and began again Watson's "Intimations and evidences of a future state. Studied ...	John Cole	Watson	Intimations and evidences of a future state	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman...	anon	Harriet Martineau	volume containing "Garveloch" stories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'.	Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont	Ann Radcliffe	Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,...	John Cole	Samuel Johnson	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,...	John Cole	Hugh Blair	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,...	John Cole	Charles Rollin	The ancient history of the Egyptians	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,...	John Cole	James Hervey	Meditations and contemplations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,...	John Cole	William Sherlock	Meditations and A practical discourse concerning death	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On looking in at the shop window, which was well stocked and elegant, we perceived a notice announcing that a Riblic ...	John Cole	[n/a]	[notice]	Print: Advertisement, Poster, Notice on shop window
	1800-1849	'Called one morning on the Rev S Hilliard & saw Bunyan's "Pitcher" and several pages of his writings in some documents...	John Cole	John Bunyan	[Pitcher and writings]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'	John Cole	Sir Richard Phillips	Personal Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'	John Cole	Anon	Curios of natural history	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'	John Cole	Hugh Blair	A sermon on the death of Christ	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some descriptions of West Indies.'	John Cole	[unknown]	[descriptions of the West Indies]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.'	John Cole	E Butcher	[sermon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.'	John Cole	[Anon]	[suitable readings]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips "Tour".'	John Cole	Richard Phillips	Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".'	John Cole	[unknown]	[Account of the Tailor Bird]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.'	John Cole	Richard Phillips	Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.'	John Cole	Richard Phillips	Journal	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour".'	John Cole	Richard Phillips	Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read an acct of the walkers of Rotherham in Sir Rich'd's book. I knew them well at Scarborough i.e. the descendents o...	John Cole	Richard Phillips	Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau, on plans for, and execution of, her work on Toussaint L'Ouverture: 'I went to my confidante, with a...	anon	Harriet Martineau	work on Toussaint L'Ouverture	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) t...	Princess Victoria	Harriet Martineau	Stories including "Ella of Garveloch"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospe...	anon	Harriet Martineau	Retrospect of Western Travel	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day,...	anon	Harriet Martineau	articles on Household Education	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers: 'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ...	anon	Harriet Martineau	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myse...	anon	Auguste Comte	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end...	Maria Weston Chapman	Harriet Martineau	Mary and her Grandmother	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'.	John Jones	[n/a]	[Greek or Great?] Testament	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read over Rosewell's "Life 7 Tryal" 8vo 17[18]'.	Anthony Hammond	Samuel Rosewell	The Arraignment and Tryal of T. Rosewell, for High Treason	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Written on end papers of manuscript book of Dawson's diary] 'this book was Read with much Interest by me May 1864, th...	Francis Cain	John Dawson	John Dawson's Diary, Volume One, 1722-30, 1731-40.	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man...	Francis Jeffrey	Harriet Martineau	The Hour and the Man (vol. I)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of "The Hour and the Man" as the finest historic...	Florence Nightingale	Harriet Martineau	The Hour and the Man	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	[old-fashioned theological works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	[early Methodist magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	[cookery books]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	[tales of murder and robbery]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...	Hannah Mitchell	Horace Walpole	The Castle of Ontranto	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	History of England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b...	Hannah Mitchell	Sir Walter Scott	Kenilworth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b...	Hannah Mitchell	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	Adam's First Wife	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans	Bring flowers	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anonymous	The season of death	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all...	Hannah Mitchell	William Wordsworth	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant ...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown-probably various contributors]	[poems in newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbo...	Hannah Mitchell	Mary Humphrey Ward	The History of David Grieve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t...	Hannah Mitchell	Mrs. Henry Wood	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t...	Hannah Mitchell	Sir Walter Scott	[works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	[history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.'	Hannah Mitchell	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When I was living in Sallie's home one of the male boarders who called himself a Socialist showed me some articles in...	Hannah Mitchell	Robert Blatchford	Nunquam	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist we...	Hannah Mitchell	[n/a]	The Clarion	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books sh...	Hannah Mitchell	Emmeline Pankhurst	My Own Story	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show...	Hannah Mitchell	Helena Swanwick	I have been Young	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women"...	Hannah Mitchell	Joseph Macabe	The Religion of Women	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women"...	Hannah Mitchell	Joseph Macabe	Women in Political Evolution	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." T...	Hannah Mitchell	[unknown]	[To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Hemans	The voice of spring	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	George Gordon, Lord Byron	When coldness wraps this suffering clay	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heav...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Epitaph on an Idiot	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know wh...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Thomas] [Moore]	[The Blue Stocking]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[George Gordon, Lord] [Byron]	[Don Juan - Canto the Third]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart w...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[James?] Beresford	[On vaccination]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[James?] Montgomery	Night	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'No private reading except a little in "Eusebia de Praeparatio Evangelica"'.	John Jones	Eusebius	De Praeparatio Evangelica	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'The natural theology of Dr. Paley is so generally recommended and read in this University, that I need not here insis...	John Kidd	William Paley	Natural Theology	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of c...	Edmund Gosse	[unknown]	[sensational novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the "Penny Cyclopaedia"'.	Edmund Gosse	Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge	The Penny Cyclopaedia	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, -with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a bo...	Edmund Gosse	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, - with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a b...	Edmund Gosse	Benjamin Wills Newton	Thoughts on the Apocalypse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called "The Cameronian's Dream...	Edmund Gosse	James Hyslop	The Cameronian's Dream	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, ...	Edmund Gosse	Andrew John Jukes	The law of the offerings in Leviticus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on, a publication called the "Penny Cyclopaedia" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...'	Edmund Gosse	Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge	The Penny Cyclopaedia	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe wa...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace des...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[Translation of an Arabic Ode]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though s...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Medwin	Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is e...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Medwin	Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.'	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[Memoirs]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do h...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Medwin	ournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"I however still love the hand upraised to shed my blood."'	Lady Caroline Lamb	Alexander Pope	Essay on Man	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's f...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[The Ton]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the trouble...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Robert] [Burns]	[Lady Mary Anne]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh f...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/Th...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Ode to the closing year	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature...	Lady Caroline Lamb	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Unknown
	1800-1849	'[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'.	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Brown	Paradise of Coquettes	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Twould make a Paradise of Hell-- & fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]'	Lady Caroline Lamb	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Unknown
	1800-1849	?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Sir Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Sir Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'	Lady Caroline Lamb	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	?Dear Sir, if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in r...	Lady Caroline Lamb	[unknown]	[copy books]	Manuscript: Copy Books
	1800-1849	'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it beca...	Lady Caroline Lamb	[unknown]	Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?'	Ellen	[unknown]	Sketch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflicti...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans]	The grave of a poetess	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisan...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]?	[Adieu]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Dr Clark	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His sold...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Letitia Elizabeth Landon	The record	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	[transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year, Through all his days...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Crabbe	Tale II, 'The Parting Hour'	Unknown
	1900-1945	'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company"...		[unknown]	Low Company	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] re...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Alexander Pope	An Essay on Man, Epistle I	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Maria Tighe	The lily	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	George Croly	Evening's daughter	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a pi...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Letitia Elizabeth Landon	The Troubadour [extract]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Nature & Art There is a word in the vocabulary more bitter, more direful...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Elizabeth Inchbald	Nature and Art	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation a...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[On Friendship]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	[transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz'	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shade...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	H. Smith	Country and Town	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	[transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'If guardian Powers preside above Who still extend to virtu...	Lady Caroline Lamb	William Robert Spencer	Urania	Unknown
	1800-1849	[transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand]	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Moore	'Gazel'	Unknown
	1800-1849	[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'	Lady Caroline Lamb	Edmund Burke	[unknown]	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine	[L'Homme]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Lines on Home	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He trea...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Henry Neele	The comet	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ a...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Thomas Moore	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festi...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans	The illuminated city	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring fort...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans	The forest sanctuary	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[unknown]	Poesie di Ossian	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Mary] [Tighe]	The old Maid's prayer to Diana	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Robert] [Pollock]	The Course of Time [extract]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	The Dead and the Living [extract]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	William Wordsworth	[The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different so...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Thomas Moore	My Birthday	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Thomas Moore	To my mother	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ O...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Resignation	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Joseph Addison	[Spare Time]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our exp...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Journal of an Annuyee	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light an...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Robert] Southey	[The curse of Kehama, canto X]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come i...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Walter] [Scott]	[The monastery]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy belo...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans]	[Kindred hearts]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee a...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	John Malcolm	[untitled]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	Matilde a novel	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	[untitled]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans	[untitled]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels th...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	G.I. C.....	The Eve of the Battle	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	A Highland Salute to the Queen	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	The Star of Missions	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text]...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Innes[?]	Lines on Mountghaine [?]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lock...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Luis Baylon	Farewell to the Year	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of s...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Maria] Abdy	Worsted work	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	M. Vicary	Lines	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	The dead friend	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to Go...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	John Mackintosh	Adieu	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles]	To one at rest	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anonymous	[untitled]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p...	Lawrence Durrell	Charles Dickens	Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Letter 255 April 7th 1940 'I?ve got this sudden craze for the Michael Angelo Sonnetts & have set about half a dozen ...	Benjamin Britten	Michelangelo Buonarrotti	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Letter 292 7 October 1940 Referring to the Blitz on London: 'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a ni...	Benjamin Britten	[n/a]	New York Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Afternoon: read one of Blair's Sermons.'	John Cole	Blair	Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was invited on one occasion to Mr Champley's, in Newborough, where I saw a specimen of Etty's peculiar painting in ...	John Cole	[unknown]	Royal Academy Catalogue	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called awa...	John Cole	[unknown]	[album]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The evening before I left, walked to Falsgrave and on making a call looked over Perceval's "Account of Ceylon".'	John Cole	Perceval	Account of Ceylon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'To tea at my friend Cape's and looked over his mss.'	John Cole	Thomas Cape	[private writing]	Manuscript: Sheet, mss
	1800-1849	'On looking over the Articles of a General Factor in the village, where I was transacting some business, a little book...	John Cole	John Edwards	Recollections of Filey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At this later place [Lincoln] we arrived at about 10 in the evening. Tea and bed were then in request, with a small p...	John Cole	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts...	John Cole	[unknown authors]	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Procured the loan of Bridge's [sic] "History of Northamptonshire" from Birdsall's Library in order to consult it for ...	John Cole	Bridges	History of Northamptonshire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon rea...	John Cole	[unknown]	[sermons]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The hours from seven to nine were spent in reading some useful and entertaining books such as Addison's works and par...	Prince George	Joseph Addison	[Political works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, h...	King George III	Thomas Paine	The Rights of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Yes," bolted out Mrs. Bowdler, "Harriet is one of the greatest admirers of 'Evelina'." These sort of abrupt speeche...	Henrietta Maria (Harriet) Bowdler	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [cl...	Frances Burney	Jerningham	'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical Pieces' or poems separately published.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'No work of fiction could be read unless approved by their mother* ... [footnote] * An exception was made in the case ...	Princess Elizabeth	Fanny Burney	Camilla	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains...	Frances Burney	Henry Harrington	Nugae Antiquae	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Alphonse Daudet	Tartarin sur les Alpes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Pearl Mary Theresa Craigie	Letters from a Silent Study	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	William Makepeace Thackeray	The History of Henry Esmond	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Joseph Butler	Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Thomas Jonathan Jackson	[Military History]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Dimitri Merejkowski	The Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da Vinci	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As regards books, such a lot depends on what sort of life you are leading. I always relish Ingram's terse epigrammat...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Brooke Foss Westcott	Introduction to the Study of the Gospels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Sir William Francis Patrick Napier	History of the War in the Peninsular	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Curiously enough I arrived at this result by the aid of an R. C. book, called "The Spiritual Combat". The motto of ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Dom Lorenzo Scupoli	The Spiritual Combat	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in "Pickwick" does "I wants to make yer flesh creep," when I h...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...	Donald William Alers Hankey	[unknown]	[unknown - on Higher criticism]	Print: Unknown, cuttings
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Dr Robert William Dale	The Doctrine of Atonement	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Charles Gore	Prayer and the Lord's Prayer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Brooke Foss Westcott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio...	Donald William Alers Hankey	[unknown]	[essay on rifling]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'So much for Mrs Piozzi. I had some thoughts of writing the whole of my letter in her stile [sic], but I beleive [sic]...	Jane Austen	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn fo...	Jane Austen	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter...	Jane Austen	Madame de Genlis	les Veillees du Chateau	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, ...	Jane Austen	Robert Henry	History of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.'	Jane Austen	Laurence Sterne	Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was s...	Jane Austen	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement f...	Jane Austen		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.'	Jane Austen		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read ...	Jane Austen	Thomas Gisborne	An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.'	Jane Austen	William Cowper	The Task	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What a Contretems [sic]! in the language of France; What an unluckiness! in that of Mde Duval.'	Jane Austen	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading ...	Jane Austen	Sarah Harriet Burney	Clarentine, A Novel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear ...	Jane Austen	Samuel Johnson	Letter to Boswell, 4 July 1774	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.'	Jane Austen	Joseph Baretti	Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wif...	Jane Austen	Revd T. Jefferson	Request for subscribers for "Two Sermons"	Unknown
	1800-1849	'This is a sad story about Mrs Powlett. I should not have suspected her of such a thing. - She staid the Sacrament I r...	Jane Austen		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'On the subject of matrimony, I must notice a wedding in the Salisbury paper, which has amused me very much, Dr Phillo...	Jane Austen		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs Middleton, wife of a Farmer in Yorkshire, her sister & servant being al...	Jane Austen		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athen...	Jane Austen	Sydney Owenson	The Wild Irish Girl	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed t...	Fanny Knight	Jane Austen	unidentified work in MS	Manuscript: novel in MS
	1800-1849	'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & ...	Jane Austen		Hampshire Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I congratulate Edward [JA's brother] on the Weald of Kent Canal-Bill being put off till another Session, as I have ju...	Jane Austen		Newspaper report on Parliamentary Sessions	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'You certainly must have heard, before I can tell you, that Col. Orde has married our cousin, Margt Beckford, the Marc...	Jane Austen		Newspaper report	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.'	Jane Austen	Walter Scott	The Lady of the Lake	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be convey...	Jane Austen	Rachel Hunter	Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six v...	John B. Gough	Charles Rollin	Ancient History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six v...	John B. Gough	Wiley and Putnam (eds)	Library of Choice Reading	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Morning Chronicle" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.'	Benjamin Newton	[n/a]	The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'One of your brothers was brought to a liking of reading by my putting some Books which I had told amusing stories out...	Alexander Monro	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-du...	Charlotte Sussannah Fry	Samuel Rogers	'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school abotch, brick dust or even saw-dus...	Charlotte Sussannah Fry	Thomas Gray	Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have do...	Bessie Raynor Parkes	George Henry Lewes	Life of Goethe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.'	Henry James	James Anthony Froude	Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London, 1	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"The Child of Earth" by the Hon. Mrs Norton Fainter Her Slow Step falls from day to day... Otley - February 15th 183...	Benjamin Beanlands	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	The Child of Earth	Unknown
	1800-1849	'The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /... Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831'	Benjamin Beanlands	Thomas Moore	The Minstrel Boy	Unknown
	1800-1849	'1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands'	Benjamin Beanlands	[n/a]	Fraser's Magazine For Town and Country	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the begin...	Benjamin Shaw	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced al...	Benjamin Shaw	[n/a]	Bible ['the scriptures']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is ...	Benjamin Shaw	[n/a]	[Newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favo...	Hannah Shaw	[n/a]	Bible ['the Scriptures']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a mis...	Benjamin Shaw	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"'	John Fortescue Aland	Nathaniel Marshall	A defence of our constitution in church and state	Unknown
	1700-1799	'We had much talk among us of Chatterton, &, as he was best known in this part of the world, I attended particularly t...	Henry Harington	Thomas Chatterton	The Rowley poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'. . . but I am going to the Library immediately for the Book, -though I assure you I read it all when it first came ...	Anna Maria Lawes	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [.....	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Livy (Titus Livius)	History of Rome Book XIII	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"'	John Clare	Samuel Johnson	The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there'	John Clare	James Beresford	The Miseries of Human Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lookd over the magaze for amusement [...] the letter on mackadamizing is good - the review on Walladmoor is 30 pages ...	John Clare	Thomas de Quincey	The London Magazine: Review of Walladmor by Scott	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums "Excursions of Fancy" and poor fancys I find ...	John Clare	John Banton	Excursions of Fancy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]'	John Clare	William Hazlitt	Lectures on the English Poets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr ...	John Clare	William Hazlitt	A View of the English Stage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the ar...	John Clare	[n/a]	The London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr ...	John Clare	William Hazlitt	Lectures on the English Comic Writers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of...	John Clare	Thomas Erskine	Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not...	John Clare	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Poems on Various Subjects	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read y...	John Clare	William Shakespeare	Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays the...	John Clare	Francis Bacon	Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays'	John Clare	Vicesimus Knox	Essays Moral and Literary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an o...	John Clare	William Shakespeare	Henry The Fifth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times'	John Clare	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of...	John Clare	Thomas Erskine	Remarks on the Internal Evidence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear ...	John Clare	William Hazlitt	Characters of Shakespeare's Plays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo...	John Clare	James Maddock	The Florist's Directory	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo...	John Clare	Elizabeth Kent	Flora Domestica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my jud...	John Clare	[n/a]	Solomon's Song	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather enter...	John Clare	[n/a]	The London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'read in Southeys "Wesley"'	John Clare	Robert Southey	The life of Wesley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and br...	John Clare	Robert Tannahill	Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertio...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laug...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" bette...	John Clare	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute d...	John Clare	James Thomson	The Seasons (Winter)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful att...	John Clare	[n/a]	Literary Gazette	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and fla...	John Clare	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sket...	John Clare	Elizabeth Kent	Sylvan Sketches or a Companion to the Park	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for incl...	John Clare	Thomas Tusser	Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and br...	John Clare	Robert Tannahill	Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine i...	John Clare	[n/a]	London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Extracts from the "Stamford Mercury"' [copies two stories]	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes resu...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"'	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays'	John Clare	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly ...	John Clare	Anonymous	Eighteen Sermons Intended to Establish	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they ...	John Clare	John Curtis	British Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Britain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have latel...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have been reading over Mrs Barbaulds "Lessons for Childern" to my eldest child who is continually tearing me to rea...	John Clare	Anna Laetitia Barbauld	Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Max...	John Clare	Richard Watson	An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of a...	John Clare	William Hone	Prospectus for 'The Every-Day Book'	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my po...	John Clare	[n/a]	The Scientific Receptacle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for ...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account'	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury'	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From "N...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'The following advertisement is from the "Observer" of Sunday May 22 1825. "Just published the speech of his Royal Hig...	John Clare	[n/a]	The Observer	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a ...	John Clare	unknown	The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was kill...	John Clare	Richard Ayton	Essays and Sketches of Character	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculia...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldin...	John Clare	G Gilleade	Allworth Abbey; or Christianity Triumphant	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the ja...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine'	John Clare	William Hone	The Every-Day Book	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations ...	John Clare	[n/a]	Stamford Mercury	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention ...	John Ruskin	John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigra...	John Ruskin	John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error ...	John Ruskin	John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathet...	[ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth	John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Juke...	Edmund Gosse	Bishop Edward Elliott	Horae Apocalypticae	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading suc...	Edmund Gosse	Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge	The Penny Cyclopaedia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my exce...	Edmund Gosse	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught...	Edmund Gosse	[unknown]	[Latin Grammar]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about th...	Edmund Gosse	Michael Scott	Tom Cringle's Log	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following after...	Edmund Gosse	William Shakespeare	Merchant of Venice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...but she procured for me a copy of "Pickwick", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laugh...	Edmund Gosse	Charles Dickens	Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom...	Edmund Gosse	Dr. Edward Young	The Last Day	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom...	Edmund Gosse	Robert Blair	The Grave	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom...	Edmund Gosse	Bishop Beilby Porteus	Death	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom...	Edmund Gosse	Samuel Boyse	The Deity	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, contai...	Edmund Gosse	[unknown]	[volume of engravings]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the...	Edmund Gosse	Samuel Boyse	The Deity	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. O...	Edmund Gosse	Bailey (ed.)	Etymological Dictionary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a...	Edmund Gosse	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a...	Edmund Gosse	William Shakespeare	The Merchant of Venice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a...	Edmund Gosse	William Shakespeare	Cymbeline	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[An account of the boy's secret reading, and how his parents only found out when he asked a question about his reading].	[a boy known to Elizabeth Hamilton]	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter xiv- "On Buffon's natural history" is a critique of the work	John Aikin	Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon	Histoire Naturelle	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'By some one of these publications, but most probably from the last-mentioned [i.e. Withering], Mr.Aikin was inspired ...	John Aikin	Dr. Withering	Botanical description of British Plants	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of t...	John Aikin	Knox	[on education]	Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Joseph Addison	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Oliver Goldsmith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Francis Bacon	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Richard Steele	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Thomas De Quincey	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Charles Lamb	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, und...	John Ruskin	John Aikin	Evenings at home	Print: Book
	1800-1849	5 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, wi...	John Birch	John Locke	Essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope.	Frances Hamilton	R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester)	The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscellanies with historical notes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat...	Frances Hamilton	[unknown]	Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Two very long quotations: 1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr...	Frances Hamilton	M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu	Spirit of Laws	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it.	Frances Hamilton	John Mead	[Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil...	Frances Hamilton	[unknown]	The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time	Print: Book
	1700-1799	content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h...	Frances Hamilton	[unknown]	A Letter to Earl Stanhope
	1700-1799	'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. 'Vol 2 Agamemnon. N.B. A ...	Frances Hamilton	Aeschylus	The Tragedies of Aeschylus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	24 Oct 1788: 'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ...	Frances Hamilton	Rev William Smith	Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime	Print: Book
	1700-1799	13 Dec 1788 Another long quotation from Smith's translation: 'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th...	Frances Hamilton	Rev William Smith	Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby. 'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for...	Frances Hamilton	Rev J Granger	Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ...	Frances Hamilton	[unknown]	Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo...	[unknown student] anon	Walter Scott	Kenilworth	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo...	[unknown student] anon		Blackwood's magazine	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained ...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The Christian World	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant di...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	[volume about theological debate]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'There was a novel about young women, which I think now must have been "Sense and Sensibility": I could make nothing o...	Edwin Muir	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in...	Edwin Muir	John Howie	The Scots Worthies	Print: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume
	1850-1899	''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	[school books]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The People's Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The People's Friend	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The Christian Herald	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	Sunday Stories	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The Penny Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	[story]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita...	Edwin Muir	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Suther...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The Police News	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The Boy's Own Paper	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	Chums	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	[School history book]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E...	Edwin Muir	Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Casabianca	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E...	Edwin Muir	Thomas Campbell	Lord Ullin's Daughter	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E...	Edwin Muir	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Excelsior	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...	Edwin Muir	William Wordsworth	The Excursion	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...	Edwin Muir	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...	Edwin Muir	John Keats	The Eve of Saint Agnes	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...	Edwin Muir	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Adonais: An elegy on the death of John Keats	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...	Edwin Muir	Robert Browning	The Pied Piper of Hamelin	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...	Edwin Muir	Matthew Arnold	Tristram and Iseult	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w...	Edwin Muir	Matthew Arnold	[selection of poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w...	Edwin Muir	William Shakespeare	As You Like It	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w...	Edwin Muir	William Morris	The Earthly Paradise	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but ...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	[book on Wallace and Bruce]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ...	Edwin Muir	Victor Hugo	Notre Dame de Paris	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ...	Edwin Muir	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ...	Edwin Muir	Thomas Carlyle	French Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac is...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	[story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands]	Print: Serial / periodical, almanac
	1850-1899	'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...	Edwin Muir	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...	Edwin Muir	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...	Edwin Muir	Robert Michael Ballantyne	Hudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.'	Edwin Muir	Victor Hugo	Les Miserables	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Gold...	Norman Nicholson	John Ruskin	King of the Golden River	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm...	Norman Nicholson	[unknown]	History of the World War	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm...	John Slater	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's "Kipps", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.'	Norman Nicholson	H.G. Wells	Kipps	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it...	Norman Nicholson	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for "Robinson Crusoe", very fe...	Norman Nicholson	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	The Chimes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	Barnaby Rudge	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frank...	Norman Nicholson	D.H. Lawrence	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T...	Norman Nicholson	[n/a]	The Sketch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T...	Norman Nicholson	[n/a]	The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ...	Norman Nicholson	Thomas Hardy	Under the Greenwood Tree	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ...	Norman Nicholson	[n/a]	The Woman's Weekly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ...	Norman Nicholson	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ...	Norman Nicholson	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Maud [and other poems?]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'	Norman Nicholson	Edgar Allan Poe	[Tales]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'	Norman Nicholson	[unknown]	[detective stories]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'	Norman Nicholson	H.G. Wells	[early novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After the examination, when we were expected to feel free as hares, we all flopped with reaction. There seemed just n...	Norman Nicholson	H.G. Wells	Kipps	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!'	Norman Nicholson	Kenneth Grahame	The Wind in the Willows	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ...	Norman Nicholson	[n/a]	The Encyclopedia Britannica	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ...	Norman Nicholson	[n/a]	Dictionary of National Biography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	William Shakespeare	[plays]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	John Milton	[unknown works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	John Keats	[unknown works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	Geoffery Chaucer	[unknown works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	[unknown works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Lamb	[unknown works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	Sir Walter Scott	Old Mortality	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	[n/a]	The Golden Treasury	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[poems extracts]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[poems extracts]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[poems extracts]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...	Norman Nicholson	William Wordsworth	[poems extracts]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb...	Norman Nicholson	Thomas Hardy	[nature and the countryside]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb...	Norman Nicholson	Hudson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb...	Norman Nicholson	Jefferies	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb...	Norman Nicholson	Gilbert White	[natural history]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb...	Norman Nicholson	[unknown]	[books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a com...	John Clare	Daniel Fenning	The universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy guide to the English Language. Containing I Tables of Words [...] V Chronological Tables of the Succession of the Kings of England [...]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading...	Cassandra Leigh Austen	John Carr	Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles, in the year 1809	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading...	Jane Austen	Sir Charles William Pasley	Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading...	Jane Austen	Thomas Clarkson	History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading...	Jane Austen	Claudius Buchanan	Christian Researches in Asia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ...	Jane Austen	James and Horatio Smith	Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h...	Eleanor Papillon	James and Horatio Smith	Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P...	Jane Austen	John Bigland	System of Geography and History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P...	Jane Austen	John Barrow (ed.)	Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to China	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P...	Jane Austen	Sir George Steuart Mackenzie	Travels in Iceland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set ...	Jane Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to...	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F...	Cassandra Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F...	Fanny Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her ...	Jane Austen	Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel	published letter about the status of her marriage to the Prince of Wales	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry. [italics] We [end italics] did...	Jane Austen		Hampshire Telegraph, Births, Marriages and Deaths section	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it ["Pride and Prejudice"]. - Henry sent him...	Warren Hastings	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has ...	Jane Austen	John Bigland	Letters on the Modern History and Political Aspect of Europe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it,...	Jane Austen	William Cowper	Verses supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in...	Jane Austen		Acts 27:44	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-w...	Jane Austen	Mary Brunton	Self Control	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he prob...	Jane Austen	George Crabbe	preface to The Borough	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.'	Wayneman Birch	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is ...	Henry Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
	1800-1849	'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me...	Jane Austen	Eaton Stannard Barrett	The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is...	Jane Austen	Eaton Stannard Barrett	The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third volume	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.'	Henry Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
	1600-1699	''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for...	anon	[unknown]	A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth day of January as a day of fast and humiliation according to the late act of parliament for that purpose	Print: Handbill
	1800-1849	'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Welli...	John Cole	Ian Bridges	History of Northamptonshire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Welli...	John Cole	J.D. Parry	History and Description of Woburn and its Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read B[ishop]. Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in th...	John Cole	Lancelot Andrewes	Devotions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi...	John Cole	Hugh Blair	Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi...	John Cole	Jacob Bryant	On the plagues of Egypt	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi...	John Cole	John Tillotson	Sermon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi...	John Cole	Edmaston	Sonnet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read November in "Annals of my Village".'	John Cole	Mary Roberts	Annals of my Village	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l...	John Cole	J.S. Piercy	History of Retford	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l...	John Cole	Thomas Benick	History of British Birds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l...	John Cole	John Hornsey	English Exercises, orthographical and grammatical in two parts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read an Acct of the celebration of the Games in the Colloseum at Rome.'	John Cole	unknown	[Account of the Games in the Colosseum at Rome]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read a...	John Cole	Hugh Blair	Sermon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read a...	John Cole	unknown	Sermon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'	John Cole	unknown	St Limerick's Bells	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'	John Cole	unknown	The word we have not seen	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Looked into Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium for Maps &c.'	John Cole	William Pulleyn	Etymological Compendium for Maps	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor...	John Cole	Lancelot Andrewes	Prayers	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor...	John Cole	Hugh Blair	Sermons	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor...	John Cole	Bishop Moore	Sermons	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have no...	Jane Austen	George Gordon, Lord Byron	The Corsair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [s...	Henry Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park (3rd volume)	Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
	1800-1849	'Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume [it...	Henry Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park (last half of last volume)	Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
	1800-1849	'My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished a...	Jane Austen	Anna Austen	[unpublished story]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are al...	Jane Austen	Anna Austen	[unpublished story]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to ...	Jane Austen	Anna Austen	[unpublished story]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'.	Jane Austen	Anna Austen	[unpublished story]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does n...	Jane Austen	Anna Austen	[unpublished story]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [e...	Jane Austen	Anna Austen	[unpublished story]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately. I keep it that your G:Mama may he...	Jane Austen	Anna Austen	[unpublished story]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough a...	Jane Austen	Walter Scott	[Poetry]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.'	Jane Austen	Thomas Sherlock	Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My dear Anna, I have been very far from finding your Book an Evil I assure you; I read it immediately - & with great ...	Jane Austen	Anna Lefroy	unpublished story	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivi...	Jane Austen	Caroline Austen	unpublished story	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha...	Jane Austen	Laetitia Matilda Hawkins	Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha...	Anna Lefroy	Laetitia Matilda Hawkins	Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your official opinion of the Merits of "Emma", is very valuable & satisfactory.'	John Murray	Jane Austen	Emma	Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
	1800-1849	'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;...	Prince Regent	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;...	Prince Regent	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;...	Prince Regent	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclinati...	James Stanier Clarke	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent. I have re...	James Stanier Clarke	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to ...	Jane Austen	Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de Genlis	Olympe et Theophile	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain o...	Jane Austen	Walter Scott [anon]	review of Emma	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am part...	Jane Austen	Caroline Austen	unpublished story	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote a...	John Creed	John Heydon	Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the interim walked on the Sands & when there the rain descended more heavily, I nevertheless searched up some seaw...	John Cole	unknown	Announcements of Lectures on Geology	Print: Poster
	1800-1849	'On turning to "The Magazine of Natural History" for March 1830, I find by Mr Dovaston's Account of his life in that M...	John Cole	Dovaston	[article on Thomas Bewick]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of...	John Cole	Robert Benick	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".'	John Cole	Rhind	Studies in Natural History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".'	John Cole	Mary Roberts	Annals of my Village	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Natural History of the Stickleback, which is a very interesting, though common fish.'	John Cole	Rhind	Natural History of the Stickleback	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the extraordinary Acct of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V.'	John Cole	unknown	[Account of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read one of Dr Tottie's Sermons "On the resurrection".'	John Cole	Dr Tottie	Sermon 'On the resurrection'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Eve. We read one of Hervey's "The minstry of reconciliation" - again.'	John Cole	Hervey	The Minstry of Reconciliation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Christmas Day. Read several Carols this day from the collection pub. by Parker.'	John Cole	Parker	[Collection of Carols]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed....	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 14. "To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! It requres a luckier star than mine! It will never be....	Katherine Mansfield	John Keats	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	All's Well that Ends Well	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	Twelfth Night	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 1. Read W.J.D.'s poems. I feel very near to him in mind.'	Katherine Mansfield	W.J.D.	Poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive...	Katherine Mansfield	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor...	Katherine Mansfield		[newspapers]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat...	Katherine Mansfield	unknown	Cosmic Anatomy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat...	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.'	Katherine Mansfield	unknown	Cosmic Anatomy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as h...	Katherine Mansfield	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'	Katherine Mansfield	unknown	Cosmic Anatomy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'	Katherine Mansfield	various	The Oxford English Dictionary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'	Katherine Mansfield	unknown	Cosmic Anatomy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'	Katherine Mansfield		The story of Jonah and the Whale	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an h...	Henry Moore	Sir John Birkenhead	Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And s...	John Pepys	[n/a]	[Greek Bible]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a foo...	Sir John Mennes [or Minnes]	[unknown]	[anatomy of the body]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.'	Katherine Mansfield	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Arthur recalls that he could not read "properly" until he began school at the age of 9; he preferred his sister Anna ...	Anna Symons	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's "Sketches of nature".'	John Cole	Macdiarmid	Sketches of Nature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903 L A W' in pencil manuscript. In addition, a bookplate on...	Laurence A Waldron	Henry Austin Dobson	Fanny Burney	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they w...	Anna Doyle Wheeler	Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'Holbach	Le Systeme de la nature	Print: Book
	1600-1699	Heere is the well where waters flow, To quench our heat of sinne, Heere is the tree where truth doth grow To lead o...	Susanna Beckwith		The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	St John's Antigua, July 19 1827 Your letter my Dear Fanny which appears to have been written in May I received yester...	John Page	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	St John's Antigua, Jany 17 1828 My Dear Fanny I have been amusing myself almost all morning in perusing several of ...	John Page		[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	St John's Antigua, Augst 2 1829 My Dear Fanny .... I suppose by this you are all reconsiled to the Catholicks. I see...	John Page	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
		Marginalia Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction. Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday" Herbert, The Collar ...	Francis Robert Longworth-Dames	Herbert J C Grierson	Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth century	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'But the Mother ... coming one Morning early into her Chamber, she found her Reading in a Book in Bed, at which the Da...	Ann Ketelbey	Robert Persons (or Parsons)	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places ...	anon [a boy]	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1500-1599 1600-1699	She 'alledged many Scriptures, which she had never read, but only tumbling and tossing over the Bible ... Shee had a c...	Joan Drake		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were c...	Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray	Sir Henry Cole	The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were chil...	Anne Isabella Thackeray	Sir Henry Cole	The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'.	Alexander (Rex) Ewing	John Milton	Paradise Lost [?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	J. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'Boy read me Kingslake's account of the conflict [...] of the 2nd of Dec. Horribly interest...	Alexander (Rex) Ewing	Kingslake	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'	Juliana Horatia Ewing	Anthony Trollope	Last Chronicle of Barset	Print: Book
	1850-1899	J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations'	Juliana Horatia Ewing	Samuel Johnson	Prayers and Meditations [?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures'	Juliana Horatia Ewing	Edward Meyrick Goulburn	An Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Holy Scriptures	Print: Book
	1850-1899	J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew'	Juliana Horatia Ewing	Drew	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'.	Juliana Horatia Ewing	[n/a]	Good Words	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times'	Juliana Horatia Ewing	Rowland Elliott [?]	Tracts for the Times	Print: Book
	1700-1799	From his diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between K...	John Hastie	[n/a]	Kelso Mail	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but...	Anna Maria Lawes	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?Miss Burney I am come to thank you for the vast entertainment you have given me; ? I am quite happy to see you,? I wi...	Susanna Dobson	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh...	John Evelyn	John Evelyn	Elysium Britannicum	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh...	John Evelyn	John Evelyn	Thersander [probably]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh...	John Evelyn	John Evelyn	[poems]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh...	John Evelyn	John Evelyn	Celia afraid of an eagle	Manuscript: Sheet
	1700-1799	'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.	Eugenia Wynne	Hernan Cortes	Cartas de relacion [??]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I read about one book per day.'	John H.S. Craig	various	various	Print: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown
	1850-1899	'Thanks for your letter & the book. A word in reference to the former. I can?t boast that I discovered what purpo...	Arnold Bennett	Maurice Barres	Le Jardin de Berenice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I first heard of Barr?s in an article by Edward Delille in the Fortnightly.'	Arnold Bennett	Edward Delille	[article on Maurice Barres]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'. I first heard of Barr?s in an article be Edward Delille in the Fortnightly. Next I read a criticism of this very ...	Arnold Bennett	Anatole France	La Vie Litteraire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lastly there was a rather striking article in a recent Scribner on new ideas in French Literature generally in which ...	Arnold Bennett		'Scribner'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking,...	Arnold Bennett	Guy de Maupassant	Bel-Ami	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P...	Eugenia Wynne	Moliere [pseud.]	Les Precieuses Ridicules	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their ce...	anon	[unknown]	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it int...	anon	[unknown]	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreati...	anon	Rev Lewis Tomlinson	Recreations in Astronomy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...	anon	Thomas Pearson	Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...	anon	[n/a]	Home Friend - a weekly miscellany	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...	anon	[n/a]	Saturday Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...	anon	Jonathan Edwards [?]	History of Redemption	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...	anon	[unknown]	Family Quarrel - an humble story	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we w...	anon	[unknown]	[French and German language books]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which w...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spok...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blo...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	'Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and co...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	Schoolroom in the female prison at Tothill Fields: 'The warder, to let us see the acquirements of her scholars, bade ...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. ...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison: 'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea...	anon	[unknown]	[lesson: either Bible or school textbook]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison: 'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth: 'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the ...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw ...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his t...	anon	[unknown]	[manuscripts]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells: 'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servi...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when s...	anon	Charles Dickens	[works]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & ...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	Fruit Blossom Time	Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1850-1899	'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & ...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	[unnamed novel]	Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1850-1899	'But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought "Occult" stories would go down well just now, & that I h...	Arnold Bennett	'Par Un Initie'	Mysteres des Sciences Occultes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little ...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	A Courting Umbrella	Manuscript: Sheet
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very ...	Jane Edwards	unknown	Novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally ver...	Jane Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally ver...	Jane Edwards	unknown	[Texts on history]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally ver...	Jane Edwards	Bayley	Dictionary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can ...	Jane Sewell	Anson	Voyages	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can ...	Jane Sewell	Lemprier	Tour to Morocco	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can ...	Jane Sewell	unknown	History of Montezuma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Stories on the Lord's Prayer	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing c...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Amy Herbert	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "Th...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Stories on the Lord's Prayer	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas f...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Thomas Hood	'We watched her breathing through the night --'	Unknown
	1850-1899	'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed youn...	anon	[n/a]	Daily Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	The Earl's Daughter	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Margaret Percival	Unknown
	1800-1849	'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Laneton Parsonage	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but thoug...	Eugenia Wynne	Bernardin de St Pierre	Paul et Virginie	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded w...	Arnold Bennett	Mrs. Humphry Ward	The Story of Bessie Cottrell	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the ...	Arnold Bennett	C.E. Francis	Every Day's News	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its s...	Arnold Bennett	Ivan Sergevich Turgenev	On the Eve	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ...	Eugenia Wynne	John Shore	[elegies on deaths of wife and child]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ...	Eugenia Wynne	William Henry Lyttelton	[probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's b...	Eugenia Wynne	William Robertson	The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince ...	Eugenia Wynne	[n/a]	[English newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is v...	Eugenia Wynne	Christoph Martin Wieland	Agathon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845: 'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edward...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Henry Newman	Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	Article on the Jesuits	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		The Oxford and Cambridge Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846: 'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Cecilia Tilley	Chollerton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846: 'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Harriet Martineau	Tales on the Game Laws	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846: 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Alison	accounts of Napoleon's battles	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if poss...	John A. Carlyle	Charles Rollin	Histoire ancienne des Egyptiennes, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes, des Perses, des Macedoniens, et des Grecs (6 vols)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my ...	Jane Bailie Welsh	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloqu...	Jane Bailie Welsh	Unknown	[Tragedies]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloqu...	Jane Bailie Welsh	Thomas Carlyle	Criticism on Faust (working title)	Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review
	1800-1849	'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'	Jane Bailie Welsh	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. T...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	United Irishman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Tha...	John Mitchel	William Shakespeare	Merry Wives of Windsor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ...	John Mitchel	Richard Henry Dana	Two years before the mast	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ...	John Mitchel	Mary Schweidler	The Amber Witch	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, in...	John Mitchel	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and...	John Mitchel	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Essays [on Bacon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June: 'Our second lieutenan...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, begi...	John Mitchel	Livy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stag...	John Mitchel	[unknown]	[Abyssinia]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als...	John Mitchel	Russell (ed.)	[Palestine]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als...	John Mitchel	Frazer (ed.)	[Persia]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee...	John Mitchel	Dean Swift	[Captain Crichton's autobiography]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee...	John Mitchel	William Gifford	[autobiography]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee...	John Mitchel	Thomas Elwood	[autobiography]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee...	John Mitchel	Homer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find...	John Mitchel	Alexandre Dumas	Three Mousequetaires	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find...	John Mitchel	Alexandre Dumas	Marquis de Letoriere	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find...	John Mitchel	William Harrison Ainsworth	Windsor Castle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find...	John Mitchel	Douglas Jerrold	St Giles and St James	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown f...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[London newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indi...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	Freeman's Journal	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ...	John Mitchel	Madame Pichler	[Siege of Vienna]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ...	John Mitchel	[George] [Allan?]	[biography of Walter Scott]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ...	John Mitchel	Dr Memes [pseud?]	[Life of William Cowper]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy ...	John Mitchel	Francois Rabelais	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy ...	John Mitchel	Claudius Galen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial...	John Mitchel	William Shakespeare	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial...	John Mitchel	Plato	Dialogues	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial...	John Mitchel	Aristotle?	Politeia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through ...	John Mitchel	Sir Alexander Burnes	[Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".'	John Mitchel	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Get on but slowly with my translation of the "Politeia": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and...	John Mitchel	Aristotle?	Politeia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full ...	John Mitchel	Thomas Keightley	History of the War of Independence in Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the wort...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	Saturday Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ...	John Mitchel	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ...	John Mitchel	Walter Scott	The Heart of the Mid-Lothian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M...	John Mitchel	[uknown]	Tait's Edinburgh Magazine [review of Macaulay's History of England]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M...	John Mitchel	Thomas Babington Macaulay	History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other th...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its conten...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	Daily News	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most rever...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	Freeman's Journal	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying ...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-conv...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubin...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		Life of Southey	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Ruskin	Lectures on Architecture and Painting	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Pusey	two sermons	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Thomas Carlyle	Heroes and Hero-Worship	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		pamphlets
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		magazines	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		The Times	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charles Kingsley	Hypatia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to th...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	St Paul	Epistle to the Hebrews	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Gaskell	Life of Charlotte Bronte	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]: 'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end i...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charles de Remusat	'French Essays on Literature'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868: 'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire	Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously...	John Mitchel	[unknown]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ...	John Mitchel	[Duffy]	Nation	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach: 'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is ac...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	anon	slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia]	Print: loose slip of paper
	1850-1899	'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels wi...	John Mitchel	[Barry]	Southern Reporter	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the ed...	John Mitchel	Joseph Brennan (ed)	Irishman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire: 'I h...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Richard Rowe	Episodes in an Obscure Life	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi...	Eleanor L. Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	works	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	['books of note']	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation there...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	Commercial Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, a...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[Newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Lord Grey's despatches have arrived...[prisoners gather to hear proclamation read aloud] when Captain Bance unfolded ...	Captain Bance	Lord Grey	[Dispatch from the Government respecting fate of convicts on ship]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult ha...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	The Times [and other English newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large ca...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east ...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Ho...	John Mitchel	Patrick O'Donohue (editor)	Irish Exile	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with m...	John Martin	[n/a]	[Irish newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of t...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	Colonial Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, g...	John Mitchel	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? ...	Arnold Bennett	Marie Corelli	Sorrows of Satan	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly...	Arnold Bennett	Robert Louis Stevenson	Some technical elements of style in literatue	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at w...	Arnold Bennett	Dr Peter Mark Roget	Thesaurus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac...	Arnold Bennett	Ivan Sergevich Turgenev	On the Eve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac...	Arnold Bennett	Guy de Maupassant	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the prin...	Arnold Bennett	Edmund and Jules de Goncourt	Renee Mauperin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring ba...	Arnold Bennett	George Moore	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac...	Arnold Bennett	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little a...	Arnold Bennett	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) ...	Arnold Bennett	George Paston	A Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study in Prejudices	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.'	Arnold Bennett	George Moore	A Modern Lover	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed re...	Justina Wynne	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other so...	Arnold Bennett	Ivan Sergevich Turgenev	Smoke	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set...	Arnold Bennett	Ivan Sergevich Turgenev	On the Eve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.'	Arnold Bennett	Edmond and Jules de Goncourt	Germinie Lacerteux	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'What a lift for 'The Golden Age' in today?s Chronicle.'	Arnold Bennett	A.C. Swinburne	review of 'The Golden Age'	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	A Year's Exile	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not ...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	A Year's Exile	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	'He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it. It was very laudatory on all counts, ...	Arnold Bennett	John Buchan	Reader's report on an [unspecified] novel by Bennett	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next ...	Arnold Bennett	Ivan Sergevich Turgenev	A Sportsman's Sketches	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The se...	Florentia Sale		Bible and Prayer Book	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & ...	Arnold Bennett	Stendhal	De l'amour	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Monday 26 October 'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't...	anon	[n/a]	[funeral service]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging...	Newton Barton	[unknown]	Death Notch the Avenging Rancher	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a ve...	Eugenia Wynne	Thomas Skinner Surr	A Winter in London, or Sketches of Fashion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro...	anon	Homer	Illiad	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro...	anon	Blaise Pascal	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro...	anon	Jean de La Fontaine	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro...	anon	[unknown]	[pestilent literature of rascaldom]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Certain events (which I will relate when I see you?may it be soon) at the office have given me an idea for another no...	Arnold Bennett	Edmond de Goncourt	Madame Gervaisais	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.'	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	voyage diary	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	"I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'. So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a...	Arnold Bennett	J.M. Barrie	Sentimental Tommy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Barrie?s 'Margaret Ogilvy', though a trifle loose in the mere writing, is a divine thing, my boy?sort of book that im...	Arnold Bennett	J.M. Barrie	Margaret Ogilvy/by her son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Dear Mr Lane, I must apologise for not returning 'King Noanett'. But I have been so awfully busy lately that I have...	Arnold Bennett	Frederic Jessup Stimson	King Noanett:A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I wait only for one little incident to shape itself and then I can march on up to, & right through, my great revival ...	Arnold Bennett	Harold Frederic	Illumination, or, The damnation of Theron Ware	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have never (in his prose work) found a trace of the artist?s passion for words & loving care over them; & in his po...	Arnold Bennett	Rudyard Kipling	The Long Trail	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informi...	Arnold Bennett	Ernest Dupuy	Les Grand Maitres de la litterature russe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informi...	Arnold Bennett	Marie Eugene Melchior de Vogue	Le Roman russe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I saw Lane for a few brief moments last night. He showed me a second report on Bettesworth, by G.S. Street. It was ...	Arnold Bennett	G. S. Street	reader's report on "Bettesworth"	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.'	Arnold Bennett	Alexandre Dumas	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte...	Arnold Bennett	Mrs H. H. Penrose	The Unequal Yoke	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte...	Arnold Bennett	Mrs H. H. Penrose	Chubby, A Nuisance, A Study of Child-life	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is ...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	The Time Machine	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	The Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	The Invisible Man	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, ...	Arnold Bennett	William Edwards Tirebuck	Miss Grace of All Souls	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, ...	Arnold Bennett	Henry Woodd Nevinson	In the Valley of Tophet	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.' ...	Arnold Bennett	Rudyard Kipling	Captains Courageous	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There i...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	A Note on Fiction	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'That Conrad book is magnificent.'	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	The Nigger of the Narcissus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My Dear Wells, I owe you a good turn for pointing out Conrad to me. I remember I got his first book, Almayer?s Folly...	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	The Nigger of the Narcissus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life": 'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and n...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Anna Laetitia Barbauld	'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]: 'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble mo...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Fanny Kemble	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Th...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Trench	sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident'	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? ...	Arnold Bennett	Guy de Maupassant	Etude sur Gustave Flaubert	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Just now I am reading a most excellent & very English novel, 'Lying Prophets', by Eden Phillpotts. I have lately got...	Arnold Bennett	Eden Phillpotts	Lying Prophets	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The busin...	Arnold Bennett	George Moore	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morr...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	?Maria ?Edgeworth	'To-morrow'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, ...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I took up de Maupassant to inspire me into a new theme; got one in about 5 minutes, & in an hour had arrived at the d...	Arnold Bennett	Guy de Maupassant	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Jane Taylor	The Contributions of Q.Q.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read 'A Year?s Exile' during the three hours? journey down here on Thursday afternoon, & have passed it on to Frank...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	A Year's Exile	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans tha...	Arnold Bennett	Henry Havelock Ellis	Affirmations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally...	Arnold Bennett	Allan Noble Monkhouse	A Deliverance	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Have you read Phillpotts? Children of the Mist? It is a great book.'	Arnold Bennett	Eden Phillpotts	Children of the Mist	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At the moment I am in the act of discovering ?W.B. Yeats?, the Irish poet, whose prose, to my mind, is just about equ...	Arnold Bennett	W.B. Yeats	The Celtic Twilight	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to imp...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	A Story of the Days to Come	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.'	Arnold Bennett	A. E. Housman	A Shropshire Lad	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesm...	Cyril Lionel Robert James		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so muc...	Sydney Smith	Basil Hall	Travels in North America 1827-8	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and u...	Sydney Smith	Basil Hall	Travels in North America 1827-8	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. ...	Sydney Smith	T.H. Lister	Epicharis	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I quite agree about Napier's book. I did not think that any man would venture to write so true, bold and honest a boo...	Sydney Smith	William Francis Patrick Napier	History of the Peninsular War	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ...	Sydney Smith	John Galt	Laurie Todd or the Settlers in the Woods	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ...	Sydney Smith	Lady Raffles	[memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it onl...	Sydney Smith	Thomas Moore	Life of Byron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with...	Sydney Smith	James Justinian Morier	Zohrab the Hostage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph...	Sydney Smith	(ed.) Lady Dacre	Recollections of a Chaperon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'.	Sydney Smith	Thomas Hamilton	Men and Manners in America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I d...	Sydney Smith	Robert James Mackintosh	Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despot...	Sydney Smith	Antoine Beauvilliers	L'Art de Cuisiner	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleas...	Sydney Smith	Frances Milton Trollope	Tremordyn Cliff	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [i...	Sydney Smith	Washington Irving	Astoria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and...	Sydney Smith	Thomas Babington Macaulay	[writings on Indian Courts and Education]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'.	Sydney Smith	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Ca...	Sydney Smith	Henry Harpur Spry	Modern India	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court...	Sydney Smith	William, Baron Stowell Scott	[reports of cases in the Admiralty Court]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the ...	Sydney Smith	(ed.) Mary Berry	[letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; b...	Sydney Smith	M. Guizot	'Washington: par M. Guizot'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'.	Sydney Smith	[Mrs] Crowe	Susan Hopley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...	Sydney Smith	Philip Doddridge	The Family Expositor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...	Sydney Smith	[anon]	The Scholar Armed
	1800-1849	I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	The Dissenter Tripped Up
	1800-1849	'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombard...	Sydney Smith	Mountstuart Elphinstone	History of India	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plut...	Sydney Smith	Charles Napier	An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.	Sydney Smith	unknown	A Life in the Forest	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'.	Sydney Smith	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lays of Ancient Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a...	Sydney Smith	Honore de Balzac	Pere Goriot	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a...	Sydney Smith	Honore de Balzac	La Messe de l'Athee	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am ...	Sydney Smith	Charles Dickens	Martin Chuzzlewit	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable ...	Sydney Smith	Leonard Horner	Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Re...	Sydney Smith	Theobald Mathew	Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequent...	Sydney Smith	Harriet Martineau	Life in the Sick Room	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as h...	Sydney Smith	William Ellery Channing	[sermon on War]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; ...	Sydney Smith	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.	Sydney Smith	Arthur Stanley	Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.	Sydney Smith	Horace Twiss	Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it wo...	Sydney Smith	Horace Twiss	Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details w...	Sydney Smith	(ed.) Richard Bourke	Correspondence of Burke	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in...	Sydney Smith	Alexander William Kinglake	Eothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the East	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you...	Sydney Smith	Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.]	Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and gri...	Sydney Smith	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'.	Sydney Smith	Frederick Marryat	The Settlers in Canada	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which ...	anon	[unknown]	[the barren fig tree]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which ...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which ...	Colin Arrott Browning	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Confession of invalid convict George Day: 'I hope I prayed but found little peace, until I heard the doctor pressing ...	Colin Arrott Browning	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they...	anon	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chap...	anon	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetchin...	Sydney Smith	August von Kotzebue	Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she...	Sydney Smith	Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de Staal	Memoires	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written...	Sydney Smith	Archibald Constable [ed.]	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr...	Sydney Smith	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi...	Sydney Smith	William Jacob	Travels in the South of Spain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi...	Sydney Smith	Benjamin Franklin	The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his def...	Sydney Smith	Dugald Stewart	[Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the precedi...	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	[evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proo...	Sydney Smith	George Canning	[Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anonymous pamphleteer (John Cam Hobhouse, it transpired), who had attacked him]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have read Georgel and must say I have seldom read a more stupid book. The first volume in which he relates what he ...	Sydney Smith	Jean Francois Georgel	M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advic...	Sydney Smith	Jean Francois Georgel	M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppos...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his no...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute nece...	Sydney Smith	Henry Brougham	A Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHAM, Esq. MPFRS upon the Abuse of Charities
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...	Sydney Smith	Henry Fearon	Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...	Sydney Smith	John Bradbury	Travels in the Interior of America in the years 1809, 1810 and -1811	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...	Sydney Smith	John Palmer	Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, &c. &c	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...	Sydney Smith	Francis Hall	Journal of Travels in the United States of North America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ...	Sydney Smith	Morris Birkbeck	Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ...	Sydney Smith	Morris Birkbeck	Letters from Illinois	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of...	Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand'	n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are sai...	John Nicholas Fazackerly	Samuel Rogers	Human Life	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are som...	Sydney Smith	Samuel Rogers	Human Life	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a...	Sydney Smith	Henry Grey Bennet	Letter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the Transportation Laws, the State of the Hulks and of the Colonies in New South Wales
	1800-1849	'Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' "Concio Cleri", a book...	Sydney Smith	Jonas Dennis	Convocatio Cleri
	1800-1849	'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ...	Sydney Smith	James McIntosh	[Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Refom]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ...	Sydney Smith	Edward Copleston	[Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency and Prinsep on Money]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it ...	Sydney Smith	Arthur Hallam	History Of Europe During The Middle Ages	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'.	Sydney Smith	William Heude	A Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overland from India to England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m...	Sydney Smith	unknown	[article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m...	Sydney Smith	unknown	[article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a...	Sydney Smith	Ferdinando Galiani	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them t...	Sydney Smith	Ferdinando Galiani	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him ...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Bride of Lammermoor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetit...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Bride of Lammermoor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is ...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t...	Sydney Smith	[Captain] Gollownin	Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t...	Sydney Smith	Daniel Defoe	Colonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertai...	Sydney Smith	[Captain] Gollownin	Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marr...	Sydney Smith	Mary Berry	Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell; followed by a Series of Letters from Lady Russell to her Husband	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Monastery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Abbot	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published i...	Sydney Smith	Horace Walpole	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so tha...	Sydney Smith	Robert Southey	The Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John Wesley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Pirate	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosion...	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	The Beacon	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Giovanni Perrone	Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangel...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica
	1850-1899	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mary Russell Mitford	Rienzi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a frie...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	anon	[novel]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I read a pamphlet of Cockburn's; rather good'.	Sydney Smith	Cockburn	[pamphlet]
	1800-1849	'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is t...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Fortunes of Nigel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you ha...	Sydney Smith	John Gibson Lockhart	Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be bett...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	Peveril of the Peak	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious pie...	Sydney Smith	Joseph Blanco White	Doblado's Letters from Spain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and there...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	St Ronan's Well	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it w...	Sydney Smith	Basil Hall	Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'.	Sydney Smith	Jacques Peuchet	Memoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie-Antoinette	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I ment...	Sydney Smith	Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Normanby	Matilda	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to ...	Sydney Smith	George Combe	[probably] A System of Phrenology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curi...	Sydney Smith	George Agar-Ellis, Lord Dover	The true history of the state prisoner, Commonly called the Iron Mask	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou...	Sydney Smith	William Pitt Scargill [anon.]	Elizabeth Evanshaw	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou...	Sydney Smith	[anon.]	Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'.	Sydney Smith	Henry Gally Knight	Foreign and Domestic View of the Catholic Question
	1800-1849	'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Bu...	Sydney Smith	Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary	The Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> oblit...	Sydney Smith	Clery	Journal	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making a...	Sydney Smith	Benjamin Thomson, Count von Rumford	Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of f...	Sydney Smith	Thomas Rennel [ed.]	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort...	Sydney Smith	Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la Perouse	Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort...	Sydney Smith	George Vancouver	A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean And Round The World In Which The Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined And Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are...	Sydney Smith	Samuel Parr	'Spital Sermon'
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Joshua Reynolds	Lectures	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Robert Orme	History of Hindustan	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Rene Aubert Vertot	Revolutions of Portugal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Rene Aubert Vertot	History of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned by the change of religion, and alteration of the government in that kingdom	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Jacques Benigne Bossuet	Oraisons Funebres	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Jean Baptiste Massillon	'Petite Careme'	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Isaac Barrow	[Select Sermons]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Edmund [??] Barrow	[??] Speech on conciliation with the American colonies	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Archibald Alison	Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to r...	Sydney Smith	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be rig...	Sydney Smith	Mary Berry (ed.)	[Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and to Voltaire]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	Edmund Burke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	Homer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	Suetonius	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	Adam Smith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	William Godwin	The Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style;...	Sydney Smith	John Allen	[article in the Annual Register, 1806]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ru...	Sydney Smith	[n/a]	[The Budget]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long ...	Sydney Smith	John Locke	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is im...	Sydney Smith	John Ferriar	Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi...	Sydney Smith	Robert Ker Porter	Account of the Last Russian Campaign	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi...	Sydney Smith	Isaac Milner	[Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish ...	Sydney Smith	Maria Edgeworth	Eunice	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was ver...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V....	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Edward Young	Night thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Anne Grant to Miss Harriet Reid, April 28 1773: 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]		Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have perused his [Eden Philpott's] agreeable verse in February Pall Mall Mag. I think that while Halkett has done ...	Arnold Bennett	Eden Phillpotts	unknown	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'. It is really very good.'	Arnold Bennett		Woman	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the Parrot-woman in 'Th...	Arnold Bennett	G. B. Shaw	The Quintessence of Ibsenism	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet ...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett		Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend i...	Arnold Bennett	Havergall Bates	The Believing Bishop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read. The first (about modelling) was about the most imperso...	Arnold Bennett	Thomas Lloyd Humbertstone	[article]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'I perceive you couldn?t keep your new house out of the "Fortnightly"! This third article is the best yet. I have ne...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Anticipations	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Dickens	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfec...	Arnold Bennett	William Wordsworth	'Michael'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is ...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	unknown	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is ...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	unknown	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to...	Arnold Bennett	Thomas Lloyd Humberstone	Coventry	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to...	Arnold Bennett	Thomas Lloyd Humberstone	article on Sir John Gorst	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instal...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	The First Men on the Moon	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most intere...	Arnold Bennett	unknown	Review of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the Moon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'With my London-Matric knowledge of German I have struggled through the appreciation of you in 'Die Zeit.'	Arnold Bennett	Fr Graz	in Die Zeit	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Have you read the fist Realistic Scotch Novel?The House with the Green Shutters? It is not first class but it is glo...	Arnold Bennett	George Douglas (pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902)	The House with the Green Shutters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book. I think fancy articles are...	Arnold Bennett		The Literary Year Book	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it ...	Arnold Bennett	James Boswell	Life of Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	''I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.'	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	Some Peasant Women	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Lett...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	William Shakespeare	various	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasg...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	John Milton	[Works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Laurence Sterne	Sentimental Journey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Laurence Sterne	[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	John Black (trans.)	Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramatist) written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'.	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish...	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Walter Scott	Rokeby; a poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay...	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	James Thomson	The seasons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless yo...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Tobias Smollett	The expedition of Humphrey Clinker	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked o...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Tobias Smollett	Roderick Random	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fa...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Thomas Gray	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, durin...	Anne Grant [nee Macvicar]	James Thomson	The Seasons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	William Shenstone	[An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, a...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	William Shenstone	[Elegy 15]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Walter Scott	[Elegy 1]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where ?Winter lingering chills the lap ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Oliver Goldsmith	[The traveller]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	unknown	[Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and of Oliver Cromwell]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to comp...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Samuel Butler	Hudibras	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Oliver Goldsmith	The vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust m...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Harvey	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my wi...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	William Collins	Ode occasion'd by the death of Mr Thomson	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Alexander Pope	The Dunciad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	James Beattie	The minstrel; or , the progress of genius	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make thi...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Fortieth oration	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Cla...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom P...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	[Edward?] [Young?]	[Satire VI?]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almos...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Alexander Pope	Essay on man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	James Beattie	Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Eliosa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, ar...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	[Edward?] [Young?]	[?Night Thoughts]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on pape...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	William Collins	Address to simplicity	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people alw...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Rochefoucault	[Maxims and moral reflections?]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazz...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	The Sorrows of Young Werter	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last sectio...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	John Gregory	A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Tobias Smollett	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Oliver Goldsmith	The traveller	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with c...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Robert Burns	To ruin	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Alexander Pope	Essay on man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Mary Wollstonecroft	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mar...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Jean Jacques Rousseau	[?Emile]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are...	Stephen Solly		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Helen Maria Williams	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of D...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	John Dryden	[Tales from Chaucer]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Macintosh October 3 1796 'Have you read Lord Gardenstone?s Sketches, or detailed observations, I believe...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone	[Sketches?]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they praye...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Jonathan Swift	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	James Macpherson	The poems of Ossian	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Robert Burns	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, a...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Peter Pindar	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who e...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Alexander Pope	Eloisa to Abelard	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read th...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Laurence Sterne	[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	William Hayley	[Life and letters of William Cowper]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	William Cowper	The task	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charm...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Thomas Campbell	Pleasures of hope	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter to Miss Dunbar May 17 1803 'You must have felt some of the pains and penalties of authorship, to have any ideas...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock	unknown	Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure ple...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	William Hayley	Life and letters of William Cowper	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasi...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	["Parisian philosophers"]	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told ...	Lesley Edna Moore	Sinclair Lewis	Dodsworth	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gr...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	John Milton	Paradise lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry March 10 1775 'I had indeed heard that the 15th were under orders for America, but did not dream ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]		[Newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Letter to Mrs F----R. May 9 1800?? I declare, had I my pilgrimage to begin anew through the wilderness, I would not gi...	Anne Grant [nee Macvicar]	Thomas Gray	Elegy written in a country churchyard	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off th...	Anne Grant [nee Macvicar]	David Hume	Essay concerning human understanding	Print: Book
	1600-1699	A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engage...	John Nutting	various	Miscellany of verse	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Susan Glaspell	Road to the Temple	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	C.E. Montague	Right off the Map	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Rose Macauley	Keeping Up Appearances	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Olwen Ward Campbell	Shelley and the Unromantics	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Hermann Sudermann	The Song of Songs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be ve...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Carl Van Vechten	Nigger Heaven	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Rebecca West	The Strange Necessity	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Oswald Spengler	Decline of the West	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Marcel Proust	Du Cote de Chez Swann	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Ro...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Berg...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Julian Benda	Belphegor	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and k...	Winifred Agnes Moore		[French newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Mahatma Gandhi	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Katherine Mayo	Mother India	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterp...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Oakroyd	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...	Winifred Agnes Moore		[French newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Theodore de Banville	Gringoire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Le Blois Vert	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Margaret Steen	Matador	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Oliver Onions	The Open Secret	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha...	Winifred Agnes Moore	John Maynard Keynes	The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Arthur Cecil Pigou	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me i...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Montague	D?senchantement	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Gabouis	Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Francois Mauriac	Les Anges Noirs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Alexander Werth	Before Munich	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Deladier	[collection of speeches]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Paul Maraud	Rond Point des Champs Elys?es	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Philip Carr	The French at Home	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Life of Turgot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Albert Guerard	French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him pe...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Life of Orage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provenc...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Ford Madox Ford	Provence	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ev...	Winifred Agnes Moore	A.L. Bacharach	The Musical Companion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it thr...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Leon Daudet	Clemenceau	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? w...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Havelock Ellis	From Rousseau to Proust	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	D.W. Brogan	The Development of Modern France	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Edna Ferber	A Peculiar Treasure	Print: Book
	1600-1699	A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engage...	John Susan	various	Miscellany of verse	Manuscript: Codex
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...'	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Revisky	Hafiz	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...'	Mounstuart Elphinstone	Timur	Institutes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of th...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	The Proceedings of the Secret Committee	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Lindley Murray	English grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a s...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Orme	Hindustan	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set for...	anon	William Wordsworth	The Excursion (excerpts)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's "Narrative...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Henry Strachey	A narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the army in Bengal in ... 1766	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely per...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Pinnock	Catechism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lor...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		New Testament Gospels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sale's "Preliminary D...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	George Sale	Preliminary discourse to the Koran	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmas...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	St Matthew	Matthew 2:1	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mangall	Questions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	[texts on French history]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mrs Marcet	Conversations on Chemistry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mrs Marcet	Conversations on Political Economy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Joyce	Scientific Dialogues	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. "Jones's "Commentarii...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[William?] Jones	Commentarii	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Gilchrist's "Grammar"...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Gilchrist	Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sa'adi's "Gulistan" t...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Sa'adi	Bostan	Print: Book
	1500-1599	Marginal notes appear throughout this book, on almost every page. These notes range from comments written in Latin sho...	anon	Petrus de Palude [?]	Sermones thesauri novi de tempore	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and P...	Hannah Woolley	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and P...	Hannah Woolley	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... Of Hafiz, I read 143 Odes in succe...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Hafiz	Odes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... I read some of the "Masnavi" of Ja...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Jalaluddin	Masnavi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	Port Royal Greek Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Herodotus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	Eton Selecta	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Phaedrus	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Horace	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Petronius	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Torquato] Tasso	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	[Italian Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Niccolo] Machiavelli	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Francis] Bacon	Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[David] Hume	Dialogue on natural religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[George] Berkeley	The principles of human knowledge	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to dinner, and to discourse with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae" which I ...	John Pepys	Francis Bacon	Faber Fortunae	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Conyers] Middleton	A free enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Conyers] Middleton	A letter from Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Conyers] Middleton	[Dissertations in Latin and English]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Conyers] Middleton	[Cicero]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de] Condorcet	The Human Understanding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[William] Warburton	Tracts by Warburton and 'A Warburtonian'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Carlo] Denina	Revolutions of Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Samuel] Johnson	Lives [of the most eminent English poets]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[James] Boswell	Life of [Samuel] Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Voltaire	Louis XIV	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Lady Barker	Letters from New Zealand	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	George Kennan	Tent Life in Siberia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	J. A. Froude	Short Essays on Great Subjects	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Count Beugnot	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'C...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Frederick William Robinson	Christie's Faith	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	J. G. Sharp	Culture and Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[John?] Aikin	Essay on the use of natural history	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Waller	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Cowley	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Butler	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Denham	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Pope	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Dryden	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[William] [Gifford]	The Baviad and the Maeviad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Erasmus] Darwin	Botanic Garden	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[William] [Mason]	Caractacus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	John Milton	[Latin poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Jean de La Fontaine	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Friedrich] Schiller	The robbers [and two other plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Gesner	Idylls	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux]	Satires [and other works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Horace Walpole	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Thomas] Jefferson	Virginia [Notes on state of]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[David] Ramsay	Revolution of South Carolina [The history of the]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, receiv...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Thomas Carlyle	Letter dated 13 February 1822	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stew...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Friedrich Schiller	Mary Stewart	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write over once more with my own hand my Catalogue of books, while he rea...	John Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[Catalogue of books]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Samuel] [Parr]	Bellendenus [preface to]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Japher	Farriery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	Life of Major Geshpill	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Bernardin de Saint-Pierre	Etudes de la Nature [abstract of]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone		The Nation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	[Novels innumerable]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'	Sir John Minnes	Samuel Pepys	[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	"Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'. Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven."	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Mankind in the Making	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When I landed at Newhaven a few days ago, the first printed thing that caught my eye was a newspaper placard: "Vice i...	Arnold Bennett		Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details	Print: newspaper placard
	1900-1945	'Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of "F. of G." in Pearson?s & thought it extremely good, barrin...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	The Food of the Gods	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s Crime and Pu...	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	Romance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s "Crime and P...	Arnold Bennett	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Crime and Punishment	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'And that reminds me that your last Strand story was really admirable. A little faint towards the end I thought, but ...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	The Country of the Blind	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of "Scepticism of the Instrument". I don?t, however, think that your t...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Scepticism of the Instrument
	1900-1945	"I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of 'Scepticism of the Instrument'. I don?t, however, think that your t...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Scepticism of the Instrument	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the book. [A Modern Utopia.] If it was a novel I could say something useful about it, but as it isn?t...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	A Modern Utopia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince m...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Kipps	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.'	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	'The Schoolmaster and the Empire	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'. . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . '	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells		Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Your Chicago article was very good.'	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	unknown	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'. . . every evening after dinner he read "Whom God Hath Joined" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember obj...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	Whom God Hath Joined	Manuscript: or published book?
	1900-1945	'What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?'	Arnold Bennett	Bart Kennedy	America Revisited	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'And you never will persuade the people who don?t matter that the close of the 'Comet' is not profoundly immoral.'	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	In the Days of the Comet	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.'	Arnold Bennett	Benjamin Constant	Adolphe	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for your letter & the 2 numbers. I think the paper is very interesting.'	Arnold Bennett		New Age	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas. It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be pr...	Arnold Bennett	unknown	review of 'The Real India'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of ...	Arnold Bennett	Nevile Foster	The Universal Machine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'. . . for a month past I have been travelling in the South and have read no paper, almost, except the "D?peche de To...	Arnold Bennett		Depeche de Toulouse	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I am reading "1st & Last" which arrived a few days ago. As it isn?t a novel I can?t pontificate on it. However, whe...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	First and Last Things	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Orage has sent me your communication as to Frank Harris. Naturally I was the reviewer. Harris was much moved by the...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Harris	The Bomb	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	Tono Bungay	Print: Book, proofs of novel
	1900-1945	'Dear Edward Garnett, (For I suppose it is you who have written the very masterly review of my novel in the Nation.)....	Arnold Bennett	Edward Garnett	review of 'The Old Wives' Tale'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Do you know the prose of Wilfred Whitten? If not read pp. 229-30 of Mrs. Laurence Binyon?s Nineteenth Century Prose ...	Arnold Bennett	Mrs Laurence Binyon	Nineteenth Century Prose	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.'	Arnold Bennett	Edward Garnett	introductions to novels by Turgenev	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Harris	Shakespeare and his Love	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Harris	The Man Shakespeare	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga...	Arnold Bennett	S.T. Coleridge	Shakesperian Criticism (?)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I got your book & letter this morning, & another letter on Friday. To my regret I have already swallowed the book, &...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Harris	Unpath'd Waters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, "The Procurator of Judaea" might have been if Anatole France h...	Arnold Bennett	Anatole France	The Procurator of Judaea	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges. I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read th...	Arnold Bennett	El?mir Bourges	La Nef	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and...	William Henry Hudson	Sir Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and...	William Henry Hudson	Sir Walter Scott	The Lay of the Last Minstrel	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he h...	John Creed	[unknown]	Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and inn...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He [Frank Harris] has written a book drawing the character of Shakespeare from the plays. Part of it has been private...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Harris	The Man Shakespeare	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have also been making a study of "The Country House". You are one of the most cruel writers that ever wrote Englis...	Arnold Bennett	John Galsworthy	The Country House	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The receipt of your song gave me very great pleasure. I cannot criticize it. In fact it took me all my time to read...	Arnold Bennett	Cedric Sharpe	Song	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'There is only one trouble about the proofs. That is: the title is wrong. (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.)...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	Helen with the High Hand	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.'	Arnold Bennett	Ren Ghil	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.'	Arnold Bennett	Emile Verhaeren	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'And when you produced your really adorable notice of "What the Public Wants", I more than ever wanted to fall on you...	Arnold Bennett		Westminster Gazette	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'There is nothing whatever of serious or permanent value in anything that Rostand ever wrote.'	Arnold Bennett	Edmund Rostand	unknown	Unknown
	1600-1699	'By and by I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter of Treason, which is mighty well worth reading and doth i...	Henry Moore	Sir Edward Coke	Institutes of the laws of England	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I must say the various editions of the M.G. are a deep mystery. Yesterday in the "London" edition, not a word (excep...	Arnold Bennett		Manchester Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell yo...	Arnold Bennett	Hermann Sudermann	The Song of Songs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The New M is a magnificent work.'	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	The New Machiavelli	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s ...	Arnold Bennett	William Dean Howells	'Easy Chair' column	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...	anon	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...	anon	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...	anon	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...	anon	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...	anon	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	G.N.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	F.J.N.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: 30 October: Kingsmill visits man convicted for forgery on Austrian G...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: 30 October: 'A very deaf prisoner was allowed a visit today from his...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Visit from cell to cell: '2. A vagrant tumbler, and low thief - naturally very shrewd, but from his habits of life,...	anon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Visit from cell to cell: '9. A prizefighter. Under a false name he was convicted of highway robbery, innocent, he a...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Visit from cell to cell: '15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art...	anon	[unknown]	[book on the Protestant martyrs]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Visit from cell to cell: '25. A letter-carrier, for a post-office felony. A man of dissolute and drunken habits; a ...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard...	anon	[unknown]	[novels]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard...	anon	[n/a]	[Sunday newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading ...	anon	[unknown]	[novels and romances]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I h...	Arnold Bennett	Andre Gide	Nouveaux Pr?textes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in...	Arnold Bennett	Upton Sinclair	Love's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I anticipate that you will permit me to say a very few words about the article in your last issue criticizing the edi...	Arnold Bennett		Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen...	Arnold Bennett	unknown	Hortulus Anime	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly rou...	Arnold Bennett	Dr Peter Mark Roget	Thesaurus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at vi...	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	'A prisoner on his admission could read but very imperfectly; his Bible he almost had never read before, and indeed kn...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to see Shelley at ele...	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Oliver Goldsmith	She Stoops to Conquer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Accounts of prisoners: 'I.N., 21, Reg. no. 491. - Convicted of a felony. - I found this criminal entirely ignorant ...	I.N.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Accounts of prisoners: 'The writer of the following exercise was entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible, an...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Accounts of prisoners: 'I have never met with a less promising character than the writer of the two following exerc...	anon	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Accounts of prisoners: T.N., Reg no. 311. 'A boy 17 years of age, whose father had been several times in prison ......	T.N.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 87: 'An uncle died insa...	anon [87]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 240: 'Sister a lunatic....	anon [240]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 264: 'An uncle deranged...	anon [264]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 26: 'Brother of No. 264...	anon [26]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 505: 'An aunt insane. C...	anon [505]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 353: 'Father had been i...	anon [353]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 670: 'An uncle in a lun...	anon [670]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 734: 'Sister a lunatic....	anon [734]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 792: 'Brother died late...	anon [792]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 839: 'An uncle insane. ...	anon [839]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 814: 'A sister died in ...	anon [814]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The only account that I have seen of the accident, in the "Figaro", is inaccurate in every detail except the number o...	Arnold Bennett		Figaro	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds...	Arnold Bennett	Andr Gide	Isabelle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds...	Arnold Bennett	Eugene Fromentin	Dominique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for mi...	Arnold Bennett	Alexis Saint-L?ger L?ger	Eloges	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing']	Arnold Bennett	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage...	Arnold Bennett	W.D. Howells	unknown	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage...	Arnold Bennett	Russell Lowell	unknown	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In reply to Mr. Archer?s letter, the authors? procedure, as regards the year 1860, was this. They practically read t...	Arnold Bennett		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I return the proofs by registered bookpost. I have read them with care. I have of course confined my observations t...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Marriage	Manuscript: Codex
	1800-1849	'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Torquato Tasso	La Gerusalemme liberata	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Took a ramble, a Cup of Coffee at Purcell's. A look at the last number of Punch in the Mechanics'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics Reading Room for a short time but could not compose my mind to profit much by the Books or Pape...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.'	anon		prayers	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Left Black's and fell in with Wm Lotherington and Perrot this was about eleven o clock they came home with me, and we...	John Buckley Castieau	William Shakespeare	[plays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I saw by the Bills that The Stranger was to be played to-night and as in duty bound I went to fulfil my promise to Mr...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[playbill]	Print: Handbill, Poster, playbill
	1850-1899	'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and addressed the Protestants'	anon		prayers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Before returning home I went to the Reading Room of the Mechanics Institute where after indulging in a little very li...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners, and afterwards preached a sermon.'	anon		prayers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Catholic Prisoners had prayers and an exhortation read to them during the day.'	anon		prayers and exhortation	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Prayers were read to the Catholic prisoners'	anon		prayers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story tha...	John Buckley Castieau	Edward Bulwer Lytton	My Novel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I called at the Mechanics and after reading for a little time went upstairs and heard a lecture by Dr ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	Edward Bulwer Lytton	My Novel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrive...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic sh...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read for an hour at the Mechanics.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself I gave expression to the author's nicest s...	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Martin Chuzzlewit	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.'	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed'	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Rather a dirty day, it being a holiday out of doors I felt lazily inclined myself & did nothing but read during the d...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read for half an hour at the Mechanics. This was the first part of the evening.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institut...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'After Tea I took a stroll through the town and then went to Collingwood on my return I looked in at the Reading Room ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and delivered an Address to the Protestant prisoners.'	anon		prayers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the Argus at the Mechanics Reading Room & came home to bed before ten.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for an hour or so then...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.'	anon		prayers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institute.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Came home took tea read a little thought a little yawned a great deal and then spite of the rain went out.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read the papers at the Mechanics.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Spent a good deal of to day in reading "The Heir at Law" a Comedy proposed to be played by the Garrick Club. I have e...	John Buckley Castieau	George Coleman	The Heir at Law	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day &...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quar...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went home with Messrs Reed & then got back to my quarters. Studied a little of my part in the Heir at Law, saw all wa...	John Buckley Castieau	George Coleman	Heir at Law	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The presbyterian minister read prayers to the prisoners.'	anon		prayers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Argus printed this morning a very stinging article upon the Melbourne Police Bench and was especially severe upon...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.'	John Buckley Castieau	George Coleman	The Heir at Law	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Came home, read from my new purchases for an hour & went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Punch's Almanack was published this morning. I purchased a copy. The engravings are very creditably executed, but th...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Neild walked home with me & we had a pleasant chat on various subjects. I showed him "Suffolk's" Bible & told him a l...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	Johann Georg Zimmermann	Solitude	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Sat Reading till twelve o clock then went to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'We went for a stroll about nine & continued walking till a little past ten. Came home then & after reading a short t...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purc...	John Buckley Castieau	John Wilson	Noctes Ambrosianae	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Called upon Joe & chatted for some time with him, read a letter which Harriette had sent.'	John Buckley Castieau	Harriette	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'Went for early stroll, called at Mr Reed's & read The Age'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read The Age at Mr Reed's the first thing in the morning. Came home had breakfast & transacted ordinary business.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Had very little work to do to day & employed myself in Reading & writing.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[French Grammar]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Went for a short stroll. Called at the Main Gaol, then returned by Collins Street. Called at Reed's and looked over...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Deputy Sheriff's about ten o clock & had a look at the newspapers [he] received by the mornings mail.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read the newspapers at Mr Brett's House.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Sat at home in the evening mourning over my face and lazily reading the improbabilities of Allan Poe, went to bed ver...	John Buckley Castieau	Edgar Allan Poe	[Allan Poe]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not he...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one o...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[newspaper cutting]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garric...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I read a little & so got bedtime to come round.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".'	John Buckley Castieau	Edward Bulwer Lytton	Night and Morning	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed at home and amused myself with reading & sleeping at intervals during the evening. Went very early to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ g...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens & Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens & Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening walked as far as Martin's with Mr Murphy. Returned read while & then went to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The Constitution of this day contained a paragraph representing the desirability of a Beechworth Garrick Club being f...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Constitution	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little dra...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822: 'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was...	Daniel McSwiney	Elizabeth Barrett	Greek epitaph	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822: 'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was...	Daniel McSwiney	Elizabeth Barrett	verses	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from ...	Caroline Kenyon	Elizabeth Barrett	An Essay on Mind with Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from ...	John Kenyon	Elizabeth Barrett	An Essay on Mind with Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16 May 1826: 'Emily lent the Essay on Mind to John Cumberlidge who rea...	John Cumberlidge	Elizabeth Barrett	An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Ramsay to James Graham-Clarke, 14 October 1826: 'Some time ago I sent a Copy of the little work of your highly...	anon	Elizabeth Barrett	An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 February 1827: 'About an hour after your departure [for Eastnor ...	Henrietta Moulton-Barrett	Maria Edgeworth	Harry and Lucy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829: 'I had a very obliging letter from Mr Barker yesterday, to tell...	John Jebb	Elizabeth Barrett	poems	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830: 'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's si...	Henrietta Moulton-Barrett	unknown	Life of Napoleon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827: 'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irv...	anon	Irving	preface	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833: 'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getti...	anon	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Stuart Mill to W. J. Fox, c.25 June 1833: 'I send "Pauline," having done all I could, which was to annotate co...	John Stuart Mill	Robert Browning	Pauline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Lady Dacre, 3 July 1836, on Elizabeth Barrett: 'The "Essay on Mind" which she sent me [...]...	Henry Cary	Elizabeth Barrett	An Essay on Mind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Noon Talfourd to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 June 1838: 'Mr Serjt Talfourd presents his compliments to Miss Barrett...	Thomas Noon Talfourd	Elizabeth Barrett	The Seraphim	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839: 'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one...	Euphrasia Fanny Haworth	Honore de Balzac	"Scenes"	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839: 'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and s...	George Goodin Moulton-Barrett	Sir Edward Coke	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I woul...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Barry Edward O'Meara	Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St Helena	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - h...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Henry Hart Milman	Samor, the Lord of the Bright City	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so ma...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Barry Edward O'Meara	Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-Helena	Print: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adh...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon)	History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England,	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adh...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Charles Rollin	The Ancient History	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Friedrich Schiller	Maria Stuart	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Vittorio Alfieri	Unknown	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Publius Cornelius Tacitus	Unknown	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote ou...	George Goodin Moulton-Barrett	Elizabeth Barrett	'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Considerable marginalia in pencil in English, especially on the following pages: 30, 186, 216, 220-224.	Vernon Lee	Grant Allen	Physiological Aesthetics	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout.	Vernon Lee	Mary Arnold-Forster	Studies in Dreams	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some textual marginalia in pencil in French on pages 173 and 176, and pencil marks throughout.	Vernon Lee	Lucien Arreat	Les croyances des demain	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Textual marginalia in pencil in French on page 46 only, and some pencil marks in the margins throughout.	Vernon Lee	Lucien Arreat	Memoire et imagination	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Textual marginalia in pencil in French in the second half of the volume (Arreat's translation of Hirth) only.	Vernon Lee	Georges Hirth	Physiologie de l'art	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginalia in pencil in English and French on the following pages: 97, 206, 241, 321.	Vernon Lee	(Eduard) Benjamin Baillaud	De la methode dans les sciences	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Marginalia in pencil in French on page 191 only; some vertical pencil marks in the margins elsewhere.	Vernon Lee	(Eduard) Benjamin Baillaud	De la methode dans les sciences, deuxieme serie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.	Vernon Lee	James Mark Baldwin	Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.	Vernon Lee	James Mark Baldwin	Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development: a study in social psychology	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 38, 47, 54, 65.	Vernon Lee	Gilbert Ballet	Le langage interieur, et les diverse formes de l'aphasie	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 54, 75, 77, 110, 163.	Vernon Lee	Salomon Stricker	Du langage et de musique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable textual marginalia in English throughout.	Vernon Lee	William Bateson	Problems of Genetics	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Detailed notes at the front and considerable marginalia in both English and French throughout.	Vernon Lee	Albert Bazaillas	Musique et inconscience	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some marginal notes in English and French throughout, especially pp.127-37	Vernon Lee	Henri Etienne Beaunis	Les sensations internes	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Brief notes on the front flyleaf, and some marginal notes in English and French throughout.	Vernon Lee	Camille Bellaigue	Psychologie musicale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginal notes in French throughout. Given by the author to Vernon Lee.	Vernon Lee	Julien Benda	Le Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la Mobilit	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A few marginal notes in pencil in English, thought not all are necessarily in Vernon Lee's hand.	Vernon Lee	A.C. Benson	Walter Pater	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginal notes in pencil in English and French throughout; summary index of notes on the title page and f...	Vernon Lee	Henri Bergson	L'evolution creatrice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely...	Eleanor Anne Porden	Virgil	Envy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely...	Eleanor Anne Porden	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, ...	Eleanor Anne Porden	John Wilson	The City of the Plague	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel d...	Eleanor Anne Porden	unknown	Strathallan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somew...	Eleanor Anne Porden	Mary Russell Mitford	Foscari	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collater...	Eleanor Anne Porden	Sismondi	Literature du Midi de l'Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The short and simple annals of the poor, which have lately poured in such profusion from the Scottish press, I though...	Eleanor Anne Porden	John Galt	Annals of the Parish	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think the public taste is not in any danger of relapsing into Arcadian pastorals, but I suspect these Caledonian pa...	Eleanor Anne Porden	George Crabbe	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...Washington Irving, too, has a few delightful fragments of equal fidelity, rendered elegant by the elegance of his ...	Eleanor Anne Porden	Washington Irving	Unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. A...	Eleanor Anne Franklin	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'P.S. - I have seen no public notice of your book, except the advertisement a fortnight since.'	Eleanor Anne Franklin		Advertisement for Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Advertisement
	1800-1849	'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown aw...	Alexander Dyce	Mary Russell Mitford	Rienzi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for ...	Frances Trollope	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in S...	Susanna Strickland	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling...	Catharine M. Sedgwick	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, whic...	Fanny Trollope	unknown	journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing ...	Fanny Trollope	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his ...	Catharine M. Sedgwick	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simpl...	Catharine Sedgwick	Harriet Martineau	works on political economy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [.....	Catharine Sedgwick	Mary Russell Mitford	Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last f...	N.P. Willis	Mary Russell Mitford	Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Summary index of not...	Vernon Lee	Henri Bergson	Matiere et Memoire	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Note on inside cover...	Vernon Lee	Henri Bergson	Essai sur les donn?es imm?diates de la conscience	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Fr?d?ric Paulhan, 'Les ph?nom?nes affe...	Vernon Lee	Alexis Bertrand	La psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contemporaines	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Alexis Bertrand, 'La psychologie de l?...	Vernon Lee	Fr?d?ric Paulhan	Les ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur apparition	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German throughout.	Vernon Lee	Theodor Billroth	Wer ist musikalisch?	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages:147-8, 154-5.	Vernon Lee	Alfred Binet	Les r?v?lations de l??criture d?apr?s un contr?le scientifique	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Considerable marginalia in pencil in English and French throughout.	Vernon Lee	Alfred Binet	La psychologie du raisonnement: recherches exp?rimentales par l?hypnotisme	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages: 14, 37, 44, 76, 88	Vernon Lee	Pierre Bonnier	L'orientation	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginalia in pencil in English on page 5 only.	Vernon Lee	Henry Noel Brailsford	A League of Nations	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughout	Vernon Lee	Henry Noel Brailsford	The war of steel and gold: a study of the armed peace	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. There are notes in ink by Lujo Brentano on the rea...	Vernon Lee	Lujo Brentano	Der wirtschaftende mensch in der geschichte	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German, throughout the volume. This volume was given...	Vernon Lee	Lujo Brentano	Die Anf?nge des modernen Kapitalismus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Ended reading Jan.22 XXVIII? on the insid...	Vernon Lee	Lujo Brentano	Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Finished reading this volume 29 Feb 1928?...	Vernon Lee	Lujo Brentano	Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. Volume 3 is published in 1929.	Vernon Lee	Lujo Brentano	Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages only: 65, 232-3.	Vernon Lee	Joseph S. Bridges	Plant Study in School Field & Garden	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some marginalia, mainly in French but some in English, throughout.	Vernon Lee	Jules Combarieu	Les rapports de la musique et de la po?sie: consid?r?es au point de vue de l?expression	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Detailed marginalia in French in pencil on the following pages: 49-51	Vernon Lee	Julien-Noel Costantin	Les v?g?taux et les milieux cosmiques (adaptation ? ?volution)	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Heavily annotated, with considerable marginalia in pencil in both English and Italian. Summary of responses (with page...	Vernon Lee	Benedetto Croce	Estetica: Come scienza dell?espressione e linguistica generale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginalia in English in pencil, especially on the following pages: 47, 51, 63, 177-8	Vernon Lee	Theodor Dahmen	Die Theorie des sch?nen von dem bewegungsprincip abgeleitete ?sthetik	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I collected my thoughts. My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side wou...	Diana Mosley	Lytton Strachey	Elizabeth and Essex	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a w...	Virginia Woolf		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight cont...	Sidney Webb	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Gratifying letter from John Fossett: "Very many thanks for two instalments of diary. Joan and I derived hours of ple...	John Fossett	Vere Hodgson	MS diary	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful - O let not words, the callous shell of thought & I will not say my...	Richard Monckton Milnes	Richard Monckton Milnes	Poetry for the People	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages: 59, 208, 211, 256.	Vernon Lee	Charles Darwin	The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Detailed notes on the front flyleaf and half-title page, and extensive marginalia in pencil in French throughout.	Vernon Lee	Lionel Dauriac	Essai sur l'esprit musical	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume, and summary notes on the inside front cover.	Vernon Lee	Hans Driesch	The History & Theory of Vitalism	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume.	Vernon Lee	Georges Dumas	La tristesse et la joie	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil in French throughout the volume.	Vernon Lee	Emile Durkheim	De la division du travail social: ?tude sur l?organisation des soci?t?s sup?rieures	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume; read January 1925	Vernon Lee	Beatrice Edgell	Theories of Memory	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume.	Vernon Lee	Henry Fawcett	Manual of Political Economy	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume; a brief summary of notes on the front ...	Vernon Lee	Charles F?r	Sensations et Mouvement: ?tudes exp?rimentale de psycho-m?canique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil in English on the following pages only: 256, 265-6, 274.	Vernon Lee	Charles W. Ferguson	The Confusion of Tongues: a review of modernisms	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Summary index in pencil in Vernon Lee's hand on page 244.	Vernon Lee	Guđmundur Finnbogason	L'intelligence sympathetique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Much marginalia in pencil, mainly in French but some in English, throughout the volume; summary notes on the rear end ...	Vernon Lee	Jacques Vontade	L??me des Anglais (Hypoth?ses Impertinentes)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Much marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. 'Finished reading Giovedi Santi 1929' written on the half-...	Vernon Lee	Henry Ford	My Life and Work	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Brief notes in pencil on the front flyleaf, and some marginalia on the following pages only (all in English): 32, 34.	Vernon Lee	F.W. Gamble	The Animal World	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume.	Vernon Lee	Patrick Geddes	The Evolution of Sex	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume.	Vernon Lee	Patrick Geddes	Evolution	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Brief summary of notes on inside front cover, and marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume.	Vernon Lee	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Human Work	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume.	Vernon Lee	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	The Home: Its Work and Influence	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Detailed summary of notes on front inside cover, flyleaf, title page, half-title page, first page of text, and rear in...	Vernon Lee	Rudolf Goldscheid	H?herentwicklung und Menschen?konomie: grundlegung der sozialbiologie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Summary of notes on the half-title page and rear papers. Heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German...	Vernon Lee	Rudolf Goldscheid	Entwicklungswerttheorie, Entwicklungs?konomie, Menschen?konomie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Notes in pencil in the rear inside cover, and some light marginalia in pencil throughout the volume; this is extensive...	Vernon Lee	Edwin S. Goodrich	Living Organisms: An Account of their Origin & Evolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume.	Vernon Lee	Karl Groos	Einleitung in die Aesthetik	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. There are detailed notes with pa...	Vernon Lee	Karl Groos	Der Aesthetische Genuss	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil and ink in English on the following pages only: 15, 17, 28.	Vernon Lee	Karl Groos	Die Lehre vom umfassenden Seelenein	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Only one marginal gloss ('good') written in pencil on one page only. Note that this book does not have page numbers.	Vernon Lee	Karl Groos	Die Befreiungen der Seele	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Considerable marginalia, mainly in English but some in German, throughout the volume. Detailed notes on the rear insid...	Vernon Lee	Karl Groos	Das Seelenleben des Kindes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab...	John Kenyon	Elizabeth Barrett	'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab...	Richard Hengist Horne	Elizabeth Barrett	'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being...	Mary Ann Ashford	[unknown]	[advertisement]	Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
	1800-1849	'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af...	Mary Ann Ashford	[unknown]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af...	Mary Ann Ashford	[unknown]	[tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]	Print: Broadsheet
	1800-1849	'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fic...	Mary Ann Ashford	Catherine Crowe	Susan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid Servant	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles...	Benjamin Brierley	[John] [Cleave]	Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles...	Benjamin Brierley	Charles Dickens	Pickwick Papers	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815: 'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding...	Francis Horner	Robert Southey	Roderick, the Last of the Goths	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843: 'Mr Kenyon came to see me yesterday [...] and he brought ...	John Kenyon	William Wordsworth	letter to Crabbe Robinson	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso...	Jane Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso...	Jane Edwards	[unknown]	[history]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso...	Jane Edwards	[unknown]	[great poets' works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso...	Jane Edwards	Bayley	[Dictionary]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Pinnock	[?] Catechism of the History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Pinnock	Catechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Sarah Trimmer	Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Church Catechism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be...	Jane Sewell	Richard Walter	Voyage Around the World by George Anson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be...	Jane Sewell	William Lempriere	Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, and Taruant ; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be...	Jane Sewell	[unknown]	History of Montezuma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this da...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Book of Isaiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Joseph Addison	Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
	1800-1849	'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
	1800-1849	'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mason	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Joseph Addison	Cato	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Gottfried August Burger	Lenore	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of m...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Book of Judges	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large por...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Walter Scott	Lady of the Lake, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only du...	Eliazbeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have ta...	Eliazbeth Missing Sewell	Matthew Henry	Communicant's Companion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, ...	Benjamin Robert Haydon	unknown	'life' of David Wilkie	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, ...	Benjamin Robert Haydon	Benjamin Robert Haydon	journal	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 May 1843: '[David Wilkie] was amiable & affectionate -- and when I ...	Benjamin Robert Haydon		notice of death of David Wilkie (on 1 June 1841)	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 6 June 1843: 'I read Vasari, all day -- yesterday[.] Why are Vasari's ...	Benjamin Robert Haydon	Giorgio Vasari	Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals,...	anon	Philip James Bailey	Festus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843: 'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sw...	Mary Mordwinoff Haydon	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Katherine Cockell to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 June 1843: 'I could not put Orion out of my hands for my needful food, -...	Katherine Cockell	Richard Hengist Horne	Orion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Russell	History of Modern Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Robertson	History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Isaac Watts	Improvement of the Mind, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[History of Venetian Doges]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 July 1843: 'Mr Kenyon came yesterday -- & he had just been reading, he...	John Kenyon	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 July 1843: 'Mr Kenyon was with me yesterday, and praised "Orion" most...	John Kenyon	Richard Hengist Horne	Orion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[a Spanish grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[a Spanish dictionary]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[Linnaean botany book]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Walter Scott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Walter Scott	Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived fr...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Laetitia Hawkins	Countess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Discipline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Joseph Butler	Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Henry Newman	Tracts for the Times	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mary Martha Sherwood	[Tales]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Stories on the Lord's Prayer	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Amy Herbert	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel i...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charlotte Yonge	Daisy Chain, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Stories on the Lord's Prayer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mary Martha Sherwood	[Tales based on Church Catechism]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Earl's Daughter, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Margaret Percival	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Laneton parsonage	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling no...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Henry Newman	[a sermon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of th...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	Life of Stephen Langton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed s...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Cecilia Frances Tilley	Chollerton: A tale of our own times	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Harriet Martineau	Forest and Game-Law Tales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Archibald Alison	History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the ...	anon.	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Katherine Ashton	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's i...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Robert Southey	Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They ce...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Ruskin	Lectures on Architecture and Painting	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	J.W. Kaye	Life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charles Kingsley	Hypatia - or New Foes with an Old Face	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Edward Bouverie Pusey	[Sermons]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Thomas Carlyle	Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Times, The	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[pamphlets and magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 August 1843: 'I heard of Orion the other day being admired at the fir...	Anna Brownell Jameson	Richard Hengist Horne	Orion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	Marriage	Manuscript: Codex, proofs
	1900-1945	'I think you should like 'La Nouvelle Revue Francaise' (31 Rue Jacob, Paris. 1 fr 50c. monthly). The critical articl...	Arnold Bennett		La Nouvelle Revue Francaise	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'A copy of the latest annual report of the Royal Literary Fund was recently forwarded to me from headquarters, and I h...	Arnold Bennett		Royal Literary Fund annual report	Print: report
	1900-1945	'I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.'	Arnold Bennett	Charles Sarolea	'Everyman' magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'.	Arnold Bennett	Guy de Maupassant	La Maison Tellier	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read 'Higuerota' again not long since, I always think of that book as 'Higuerota', the said mountain being the pri...	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	Nostromo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ...	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	The Secret Agent	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ...	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	Under Western Eyes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ...	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	The Secret Sharer	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and describes in [italics]The...	Lady Jane Grey	Plato	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844: 'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I ...	Richard Hengist Horne	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	poems	Unknown
	1800-1849	Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844: 'Do you happen to know anything of ...	Richard Hengist Horne	Wiliam Carleton	'tales' (extracts)	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries a...	Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat')	Sir Aurel Stein	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Bryan Waller Procter to Robert Browning, ?26 March 1844: 'I got your play last night then read it with very great p...	Bryan Waller Procter	Robert Browning	Colombe's Birthday	Print: In proof copy
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 July 1844: 'I heard the other day that "Agathonia" was Mrs Gore's! [....	Henry Crabb Robinson	Catherine Gore	Agathonia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its s...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise ...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openin...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phras...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumb...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'th...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'An...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especial...	Arnold Bennett	George Meredith	Letters vol 1	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Mar...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	The Passionate Friends	Print: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book
	1900-1945	'. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see t...	Arnold Bennett	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was glad to see your hand, as it forced me to write to you. About 5 or 6 weeks ago I had the impulse to write to y...	Arnold Bennett	John Squire	The Three Hills	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade. (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have writt...	Arnold Bennett	Laurent Tailhade	Poemes aristophanesques	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ...	Arnold Bennett	Samuel Butler	The Way of all Flesh	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ...	Arnold Bennett	W.B. Maxwell	The Devil's Garden	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	Fortitude	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	Mr Perrin and Mr Traill	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You have been looking for the wrong things in "The Passionate Friends", & failing to see the right things.'	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	The Passionate Friends	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I like "The Dark Flower" very much, & wrote to tell Galsworthy so?a thing I have never done before about a book of hi...	Arnold Bennett	John Galsworthy	The Dark Flower	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Mont...	Arnold Bennett	C.L. Philippe	Bubu de Montparnasse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Mont...	Arnold Bennett	J.H. Rosny	Dans les rues	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In your issue of August 29th, reviewing war literature, you say: "Almost without exception during the last fortnight...	Arnold Bennett		The New Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'As to applicants having received better treatment from Poor Law Guardians than from the Fund, My authority was a deta...	Arnold Bennett		Manchester Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I have nearly finished "Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui". It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sund...	Arnold Bennett	Abel Hermant	Confessions d'un homme d'aujourdhui	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'How soon are you going to use that contribution by my friend Miss Pauline Smith? I think that last week?s issue was ...	Arnold Bennett		New Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.'	Arnold Bennett	Theodore Dreiser	The Genius	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I h...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Charles Rollin	The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Thomas Carlyle	Cruthers and Johnson	Print: BookManuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but him...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Friedrich Schiller	William Tell	Print: BookManuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio)	Unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Gozzi Carlo	Turnadot, Princess of China	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases	Memorial de Sainte Helene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Stella	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Clavigo, a Tragedy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Giovanne Boccaccio	Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I a...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Egmont	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different par...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Giovanne Boccaccio	Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Niccolo Macchiavelli	Discourses on Livy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Germaine de Stael	Life of Necker [Jacques?]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Friedrich Schiller	Fiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical Tragedy	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I h...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Anon	Review of Edward Irving's The Orations and the Arguments For Judgment To Come	Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'We have a little French story in the house, called [underlined] Elizabeth [end underlining], much admired and praised...	Anna Wilbraham	Marie "Sophie" Cottin	Elisabeth, ou les Exiles de Siberie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav...	Marianne Francis	Joseph Butler	Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav...	Marianne Francis	John Locke	Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, An	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a w...	Joanne Jardine	Mary Brunton	Self-control	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28 September 1846 issu...	Henry Fothergill Chorley		notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847: 'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the B...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Robert Browning	Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Forster to Sarianna Browning, 21 September 1846: 'You cannot imagine the surprise with which I saw this mornin...	John Forster		Notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the ...	George Warrington Steevens	unknown	unknown [novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre...	Virginia Stephen	Christopher Marlowe	Doctor Faustus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre...	Virginia Stephen	Christopher Marlowe	Edward II	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre...	Virginia Stephen	William Shakespeare	Cymbeline	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905: 'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have writt...	Virginia Stephen		eighteenth-century texts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing, as was her habit du...	Virginia Stephen	Walter Savage Landor	Pericles and Aspasia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch...	Virginia Stephen	Ernest Renan	Cahiers de Jeunesse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch...	Virginia Stephen	Christina Rossetti	poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch...	Virginia Stephen	John Keats	poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906: 'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is ...	Virginia Stephen	John Keats	poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907: 'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalm...	Virginia Stephen	Henry James	The American Scene	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908: 'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling t...	Virginia Stephen	G. E. Moore	Principia Ethica	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall o...	Virginia Woolf		'new novels'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall o...	Virginia Woolf	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall o...	Leonard Woolf	Arnold Bennett	An Old Wives Tale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913: '[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse ...	Virginia Woolf	George Meredith	letters	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia...	Virginia Woolf	Clive Bell	Art	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ...	Virginia Woolf	Henry James	'works'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ...	Virginia Woolf	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Insulted and Injured	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Carlyle	Past and Present	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ...	Virginia Woolf		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph...	Virginia Woolf	Sophocles	Electra	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph...	Virginia Woolf	Leonard Merrick		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Measure for Measure	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under...	Virginia Woolf		classical Greek literature	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under...	Virginia Woolf	John Milton	complete works	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919: 'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triu...	Virginia Woolf	Ethel Smyth	Impressions that Remained (vol. 2)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ...	Virginia Woolf	Walter Scott	The Bride of Lammermoor	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ...	Virginia Woolf	D. H. Lawrence	Women in Love	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922: 'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa...	Virginia Woolf	Katherine Mansfield	Bliss	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell,14 April 1922: 'Now Mr Joyce ... yes, I have fallen; to the extent of four pounds too....	Leonard Woolf	James Joyce	Ulysses	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922: 'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume com...	Virginia Woolf	Marcel Proust	A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage....	Virginia Woolf	Rebecca West	The Judge	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage....	Virginia Woolf	Henry James	The Wings of a Dove	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage....	Virginia Woolf	James Joyce	Ulysses	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr...	Virginia Woolf	Marcel Proust		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr...	Virginia Woolf	Rimbaud		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacque...	Gwen Raverat	Virginia Woolf	Mrs Dalloway	Print: Unknown, In proof copy
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926: 'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of E...	Virginia Woolf	Walter Raleigh	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927: 'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a ...	Virginia Woolf	V. Sackville-West	Knole and the Sackvilles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ...	Virginia Woolf	Marcel Proust		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ...	Virginia Woolf	Henry James		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ...	Virginia Woolf	Fyodor Dostoevsky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...	Virginia Woolf	Honore de Balzac		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...	Virginia Woolf	Leo Tolstoy		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...	Virginia Woolf	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929: 'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new r...	Virginia Woolf	Ronald Firbank		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929: 'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree ...	Virginia Woolf	Rebecca West	Harriet Hume	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'. ...	Virginia Woolf	D. H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all ...	Virginia Woolf	Stella Benson		Unknown
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931: 'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them...	Virginia Woolf	Princess Daisy of Pless	From My Private Diary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe...	Virginia Woolf	George Eliot	Middlemarch	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe...	Virginia Woolf	Ford Madox Ford	Thus to Revisit	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931: 'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	As You Like It	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932: 'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I r...	Virginia Woolf	Elizabeth Bowen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ...	Virginia Woolf	Axel Munthe	The Story of San Michele	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ...	Virginia Woolf	Stella Benson	Tobit Transplanted	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933: 'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- ...	Virginia Woolf	James Joyce	short story	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933: 'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seem...	Virginia Woolf	Quentin Bell	letter	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934: 'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Wel...	Virginia Woolf		report of death of Sir George Duckworth	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so ma...	Virginia Woolf	Marcel Proust		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [...	Virginia Woolf	Edith Wharton	A Backward Glance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Stephen Spender, 10 July 1934: 'I'm so happy that you read the Lighthouse with pleasure, when the...	Stephen Spender	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers...	Virginia Woolf		The Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers...	Virginia Woolf	Ernest Renan	St Paul	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers...	Virginia Woolf		New Testament	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost comple...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's affair with the a...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Wright	Life of Charles Dickens	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929...	Virginia Woolf	Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette	Sido	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936: 'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good,...	Virginia Woolf	William Wordsworth	The Prelude	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, 14 November 1936: 'Politics are still raging faster and fiercer [...] Leonard is try...	Leonard Woolf	Bertrand Russell	Which Way to Peace?	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937: 'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want any...	Virginia Woolf	George Sand	Memoires (vol 5)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936: 'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain ...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Babington Macaulay	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938: 'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very goo...	Virginia Woolf	Bernard Mandeville	The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938: 'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight,...	Virginia Woolf	Lady Frederick Cavendish	The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, Monday 3 October 1938: 'Yesterday the Keynes came to tea. Maynard had already summe...	John Maynard Keynes	John Maynard Keynes	article on the Munich Crisis	Unknown
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939: 'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all ...	Virginia Woolf	Geoffrey Chaucer	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940: 'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too ma...	Virginia Woolf	Shena, Lady Simon	paper on women and war	Unknown
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a...	Virginia Woolf	Winifred Holtby	study on Virginia Woolf	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'	Virginia Woolf	Edmund Burke	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'	Virginia Woolf	Andre Gide	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940: 'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridg...	Virginia Woolf	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn...	Virginia Woolf	Benedict Nicolson	letter to Virginia Woolf	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn...	Benedict Nicolson	Virginia Woolf	Roger Fry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli...	Anna Grosvenor	James Boswell	Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it al...	Virginia Woolf	Vita Sackville-West	Seducers in Ecuador	Manuscript: Unknown
	1500-1599	?Reed by me N. Hughes 1595 ? noember?	N. Hughes	John Davis	The World's Hydrographical Description	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'.	Virginia Woolf	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...	Virginia Woolf	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Idiot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...	Virginia Woolf	Jules Michelet	Histoire de France	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...	Virginia Woolf	Fanny Kemble	'Life'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...	Virginia Woolf	Alexander Pope	The Rape of the Lock	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith. The classics make the t...	Virginia Woolf	Alexander Pope	Essay on Criticism	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book ...	Virginia Woolf	Alexander Pope	Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book ...	Virginia Woolf	Gilbert Murray	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty & bright -- without a si...	Virginia Woolf	Leslie Stephen	critical work on Pope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15 [...] He read Janet "The...	Leonard Woolf	Leonard Woolf	'The Three Jews'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight on until bedtime, ...	Virginia Woolf	Leonard Woolf	The Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few Emotions	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, & the only tolerable history...	Virginia Woolf	Jules Michelet	Histoire de France	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open Dante or think of him wit...	Virginia Woolf		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine into R.T. more closely [...]...	Virginia Woolf	Rosalind Murray	The Leading Note	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made me reflect that I haven'...	Ottoline Morrell	Ottoline Morrell	journal	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it st...	Leonard Woolf	Stephen Gwynne and Gertrude Tuckwell	Life of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it st...	Virginia Woolf	Dante Alighieri	Purgatorio	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	'book on Children & Sex'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a ...	anon	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- ...	Jane Maria, Lady Strachey	Ben Jonson	masques	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- ...	Jane Maria, Lady Strachey	Captain Ronald A. Hopwood	'The Old Way'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.'	Richard Reginald Harding	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Aurora Leigh	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a...	Virginia Woolf	George Crabbe	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was ...	Benedict Nicolson	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'.	Virginia Woolf	Ezra Pound	Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir	Print: Book
	1900-1945	24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea...	Virginia Woolf		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea...	Lytton Strachey		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	27 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional p...	Desmond MacCarthy	William Makepeace Thackeray	Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due...	Virginia Woolf	John, Viscount Morley	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred upon an afternoon readi...	Virginia Woolf	William Wordsworth	'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	1 May 1918: 'On Sunday [28 April] Desmond came to dinner [...] Late at night he took to reading Joyce's ms. aloud, &...	Desmond MacCarthy	James Joyce	Ulysses	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	27 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2 days ago at Lane End [...]...	Virginia Woolf		notice of death of Sarah Emily Duckworth	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's sister-in-law] was announced.'	Virginia Woolf	George Otto Trevelyan	The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay	Print: Book
	1900-1945	23 July 1918: 'Jack Hills & Pippa dined here [...] To my surprise [...] he knows about Georgian poetry, & has read L...	John Waller Hills	Lytton Strachey	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hol...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas de Quincey	Impassioned Prose	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The Poetic...	Virginia Woolf	William Michael Rossetti	Memoir of Christina Rossetti	Print: Book
	1900-1945	7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night, with [...] the English r...	Virginia Woolf	Katherine Mansfield	'Bliss'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	7 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect ...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	life of Byron	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand thoug...	Virginia Woolf	Vita Sackville-West	Passenger to Teheran	Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'.
	1800-1849	'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum...	Jane Baillie Welsh	William Robertson	Charles V	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum...	Jane Baillie Welsh	unknown	History of America	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have h...	Virginia Woolf		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	7 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, pas...	Virginia Woolf	Leonard Woolf	Empire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic Imperialism	Unknown
	1900-1945	6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly...	Sydney Waterlow	Sydney Waterlow	autobiographical essay	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly...	Vanessa Bell	Vanessa Bell	autobiographical essay	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly...	Duncan Grant	Duncan Grant	autobiographical essay	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly...	Duncan Grant	Duncan Grant	autobiographical essay	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	20 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.'	Virginia Woolf		Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-Foster	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h...	Virginia Woolf	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- ...	Virginia Woolf	Sophocles	Trachiniae	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C...	Virginia Woolf	Katherine Mansfield	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Carlyle	'reminiscences'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Babington Macaulay	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I h...	Virginia Woolf	Kenneth Burke	'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage Out	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio...	Virginia Woolf	Henry James	The Wings of a Dove	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if s...	Virginia Woolf	Katherine Mansfield	stories	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would...	Virginia Woolf	Clive Bell	[journalism]	Unknown
	1900-1945	Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...	Virginia Woolf	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...	Virginia Woolf	Madame de La Fayette	La Princesse de Cleves	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...	Virginia Woolf	Walter Scott	Old Mortality	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...	Virginia Woolf	Lady Gwendolyn Cecil	The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...	Virginia Woolf	Cecil Torr	Small Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	Life of Tennyson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	Life of [?Samuel] Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Love Peacock	Nightmare Abbey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Love Peacock	Crotchet Castle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...	Virginia Woolf	Walter Scott	Old Mortality	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...	Virginia Stephen	Thomas Love Peacock	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last ye...	Virginia Woolf	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lord Byron's Correspondence	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterp...	Virginia Woolf	Madame de la Fayette	La Princesse de Cleves	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe...	Virginia Woolf		The New Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe...	Virginia Woolf		The Nation	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I sho...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Thomas De Quincey	Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Unknown (trad)	Jack The Giant Killer	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Mary Martha Sherwood	The Wishing Cap	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Unknown	Blue Beard	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest po...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	[ms novel]	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.'	Virginia Woolf	Sophocles	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L...	Lytton Strachey	Vittorio Alfieri	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L...	Lytton Strachey	Virginia Woolf	The Voyage Out	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of E...	Virginia Woolf	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet...	Virginia Woolf	Edmund Gosse	Books on the Table	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can ...	Virginia Woolf	Leigh Hunt	The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt	Print: Book
	1900-1945	15 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary to...	Lytton Strachey	anon	advertisement/announcement on racing	Print: Poster
	1900-1945	Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beaut...	Thomas Stearns Eliot	Thomas Stearns Eliot	The Waste Land	Unknown
	1900-1945	Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, c...	Virginia Woolf	James Joyce	Ulysses	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] ...	Boen Hawkesford	Katherine Mansfield	Bliss	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation,...	Virginia Woolf	Gilbert Seldes	Review of James Joyce, Ulysses	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior wat...	Virginia Woolf	James Joyce	Ulysses	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- suc...	Lytton Strachey	Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale)	Anecdotes of the Late Doctor Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- suc...	Lytton Strachey	Stephen Hobhouse and A. Fenner Brockway, eds	English Prisons Today. Being the Report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman....	Virginia Woolf	Ben Jonson	Epicoene, or The Silent Woman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read suc...	Virginia Woolf	Elizabeth Gaskell	Wives and Daughters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	unknown	'18th Century prose'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	Richard Hakluyt	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	Prosper Merimee	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	Thomas Carlyle	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	Walter Scott	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	J. G. Lockhart	Life of Walter Scott	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	Edward Gibbon	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	unknown	biographical works	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	Percy Bysshe Shelley	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co...	Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies	Ethel M. Dell	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co...	Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies	Charles Dickens	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anyt...	Virginia Woolf	Vita Sackville-West	On the Lake	Unknown
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o...	Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf	1923 diary	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o...	Virginia Woolf	Beatrice Webb	My Apprenticeship	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after readi...	Virginia Woolf	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopk...	Virginia Woolf	Gerard Manley Hopkins	[manuscripts]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how ...	Virginia Woolf	Maurice Baring	C	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold...	Virginia Woolf	Vita Sackville-West	Collected Poems	Unknown
	1900-1945	'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came ba...	Virginia Woolf	Kenneth Clark	unknown	Unknown
	1900-1945	'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a ...	Virginia Woolf	Vita Sackville-West	Country Notes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des...	Virginia Woolf	Robert Bridges	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des...	Virginia Woolf	Dante Alighieri	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since Septem...	Virginia Woolf	Geoffrey Scott	The Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of Taste	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a ...	Virginia Woolf	V. Sackville-West	Passenger to Teheran	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'	Virginia Woolf	Maurice Baring	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'	Virginia Woolf	unknown	'sporting memoirs'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first t...	Virginia Woolf		Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Othello	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	French texts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poo...	Virginia Woolf	Lytton Strachey	Elizabeth and Essex	Unknown
	1900-1945	Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M...	Virginia Woolf	Samuel Butler	Notebooks	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M...	Virginia Woolf	Viola Meynell	Alice Meynell. A Memoir	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water...	Virginia Woolf	Elizabeth Jenkins	Virginia Water	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water...	Virginia Woolf	John Middleton Murry	God: an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water...	Virginia Woolf	Jean Racine		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I ...	Virginia Woolf	Augustine Biirrell	?Collected Essays, 1880-1920	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...	Virginia Woolf	George Puttenham	The Arte of English Poesie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...	Virginia Woolf	William Webbe	A Discourse of English Poetrie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...	Virginia Woolf	Gabriel Harvey	Works	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...	Virginia Woolf	Gabriel Harvey	Commonplace Book	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...	Virginia Woolf	Gabriel Harvey	Letter Book, 1573-1580	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which f...	Virginia Stephen	Richard Hakluyt	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.'	Virginia Woolf		'Lord Chaplin's life'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since y...	Virginia Woolf	E. F. Benson	Dodo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a st...	Virginia Woolf	Molly Hamilton	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Infer...	Virginia Woolf	Dante Alighieri	Inferno	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beati...	Virginia Woolf	Rosamund Lehmann	A Note in Music	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week...	Virginia Woolf	Dante Alighieri	La Divina Commedia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...	Virginia Woolf	Daniel Defoe	A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...	Virginia Woolf	Archibald Hamilton Rowan	The Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...	Virginia Woolf	E. F. Benson	As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...	Virginia Woolf	James Jeans	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...	Virginia Woolf	The Rev. John Skinner	The Journal of a Somerset Rector	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...	Virginia Woolf	Queen Victoria	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing n...	Frank Smythe	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's p...	Frank Smythe	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks to the efficiency of Mr Kydd, we were overtaken here by a runner, and spent a pleasant half-hour in the shade ...	Frank Smythe		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that...	Frank Smythe		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I lay in my sleeping bag reading Mr.Richard Aldington's cynical book "Death of a Hero". it is an admirable work but I...	Frank Smythe	Richard Aldington	Death of a Hero	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".'	Frank Smythe	James Boswell	A Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading pers...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	[verbal sketches of well known people]	Manuscript: MS book
	1800-1849	'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite En...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia	MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Voltaire	Candide	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts'	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales		[papers and correspondence]	Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc.
	1900-1945	'Before we turned in Raymond, at Hugh's suggestion, read aloud Norton's 1924 despatch, in which he summoned up the pos...	(Charles) Raymond Greene	Edward Felix Norton	despatch	Unknown
	1850-1899	'I am glad to hear you are giving Macaulay a turn. I believe, though it sounds rude and foolish, nothing will do you m...	Sidney Colvin	Thomas Babington Macaulay	unknown	Print: Book, Articles in the Edinburgh Review?
	1900-1945	'I sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it fall...	Frank Smythe	William Shakespeare	Sonnets	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat...	Frank Smythe		newspapers and weekly magazines	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Friday 14 February 1931: 'Janet Case yesterday [...] I suppose over 70 now [...] She clings to youth. "But we never se...	Janet Case	T. S. Eliot	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thoua...	Virginia Woolf	D. H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lov...	Virginia Woolf	D. H. Lawrence	The Man Who Died	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'	Virginia Woolf	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'	Virginia Woolf	unknown	biographies	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ...	Virginia Woolf	Hugh Walpole	Judith Paris	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ...	Virginia Woolf	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): "I have been for the l...	Vanessa Bell	Virginia Woolf	The Waves	Print: Book
	1900-1945	25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s...	Virginia Woolf	Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1900-1945	25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s...	Virginia Woolf	Benjamin Disraeli	Coningsby	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.'	Virginia Woolf	H. G. Wells	The Science of Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading...	Virginia Woolf	H. G. Wells	The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the g...	Leonard Woolf	unknown	Greek grammar	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is bray...	Leonard Woolf	Ethel Smyth	A Three-Legged Tour in Greece	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'	Virginia Woolf	Max Eastman	The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'	Virginia Woolf	H. G. Wells	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'	Virginia Woolf	John Middleton Murry	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock...	Virginia Woolf	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Princess Charlotte	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me ...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein	Petits Romans	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books'	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales			Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor ...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'	Unknown
	1800-1849	'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Frances Burney, Madame d'Arblay	Wanderer, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...	Virginia Woolf	Alexis de Tocqueville	Souvenirs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...	Virginia Woolf	Lord Kilbracken	Reminiscences	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...	Virginia Woolf	George Bernard Shaw	Pen Portraits and Reviews	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...	Virginia Woolf	Douglas Ainslie	Adventures Social and Literary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...	Virginia Woolf	V. Sackville-West	'novel'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...	Virginia Woolf	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...	Virginia Woolf	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in ...	Virginia Woolf	D. H. Lawrence	The Letters of D. H. Lawrence	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will co...	Virginia Woolf	Elizabeth Wright	The Life of Joseph Wright (vol 1)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.'	Virginia Woolf	R. Barry O'Brien	The Life of Charles Stuart Parnell	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ...	Virginia Woolf	Henry James	The Sacred Fount	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[...	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Creevey	The Creevey Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[...	Leonard Woolf	J. G. Frazer	The Golden Bough	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Henry IV Part 1	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th...	Virginia Woolf	Leopardi	[poem]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) muc...	Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf	diaries	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt sett...	Virginia Woolf	Florence Hardy	Life of Thomas Hardy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal ...	Virginia Woolf	Geoffrey Cust Faber	A Character Study of the Oxford Movement	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'.	Virginia Woolf	Turgenev	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by C...	Virginia Woolf	Arsene Houssaye	Confessions	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Yout...	Virginia Woolf	Vera Brittain	Testament of Youth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T...	Virginia Woolf	Margot Oxford	More Memories	Print: Book
	1900-1945	23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T...	Virginia Woolf	Mary Agnes Hamilton	Sidney and Beatrice Webb	Print: Book
	1900-1945	5 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half as...	Virginia Woolf	Marguerite Steen	Hugh Walpole: A Study	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a...	Frank Smythe	Charles Dickens	Martin Chuzzlewit	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a...	Noel Odell	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th...	John Buchan	Kenneth Grahame	Golden Age	Print: Book
	1850-1899	His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th...	John Buchan	Ivan Turgenev	Smoke	Print: Book
	1850-1899	His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th...	John Buchan	Robert Browning	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom ...	John Buchan	Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward	Robert Elsmere	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom ...	John Buchan	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and th...	Susan Ferrier	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Corsair, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever...	Susan Ferrier	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Among the mail was "The Times" Special Coronation Supplement. The men were vastly intrigued with the pictures. "Tha...	Frank Smythe		The Times Special Coronation Supplement	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t...	Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales	Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis	Mademoiselle de La Fayette : ou le siecle de Louis XIII	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t...	Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales	Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis	Les voeux temeraires : ou L' enthousiasme	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bod...	Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ...	Susan Ferrier	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ...	Susan Ferrier	Frances Jacson	Rhoda	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of the excellence of the devotions in the little volume you were so good as to send me, there cannot be two opinions,...	Anne Grant		[volume of religious meditations]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first ...	Francis Younghusband	unknown	unknown	Print: Book, manuscripts also mentioned
	1850-1899	'I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the "Peking ...	Francis Younghusband		Peking Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently movi...	Francis Younghusband	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of...	Virginia Woolf		announcement of death of Stella Benson	Print: Poster
	1900-1945	Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was ther...	Virginia Woolf	Andrew Marvell	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [B...	Virginia Woolf	Arthur Young	Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...	Virginia Woolf	Arthur Young	Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...	Virginia Woolf	Arthur Young	Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...	Virginia Woolf	William Makepeace Thackeray	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...	Virginia Woolf	Lord Berners	First Childhood	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...	Virginia Woolf	Ernest de Selincourt	Dorothy Wordsworth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...	Virginia Woolf	J. E. Neale	Queen Elizabeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 1 May 1934: 'L. opening the first Times to come our way, said George Duckworth is dead. So he is. And I feel t...	Leonard Woolf		report of death of George Duckworth	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Pericles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Titus Andronicus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of th...	Virginia Woolf	T. S. Eliot	The Rock. A Pageant Play	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoni...	Thomas Stearns Eliot	George Barker	poems	Unknown
	1900-1945	Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -...	Virginia Woolf	Guy de Maupassant	Une Vie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...	Virginia Woolf	Ex-Detective Sergeant B. Leeson	Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...	Virginia Woolf	Saint-Simon	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...	Virginia Woolf	Henry James	Preface, Portrait of a Lady	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...	Virginia Woolf	Andre Gide	Pages de Journal, 1929-1932	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Troilus and Cressida	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Pericles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	The Taming of the Shrew	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Cymbeline	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	Guy de Maupassant	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	Charles de Vigny	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	Saint-Simon	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	Andre Gide	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	John Cowper Powys	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	H. G. Wells	Experiment in Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of Sarawak	Good Morning and Good Night	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	Bonamy Dobree	Modern Prose Style	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...	Virginia Woolf	Alice James	Alice James: Her Brothers -- Her Journal	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg...	Virginia Woolf	James Thomson	The Seasons	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg...	Virginia Woolf	Edward Sackville-West	The Sun in Capricorn	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	life of James Boswell	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 17 October 1934: 'I am so sleepy. Is this age? I cant shake it off. And so gloomy. Thats [writing] the end o...	Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf	diaries	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -...	Virginia Woolf	Sophocles	Antigone	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 21 November 1934: 'I am reading, with interest & distaste, Wells'.	Virginia Woolf	H. G. Wells	Experiment in Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [...	Virginia Woolf	Ernest Renan	St Paul	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [...	Virginia Woolf		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [...	Virginia Woolf		Acts of the Apostles	Print: Book
		Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read ...	John Maynard Keynes	H. G. Wells	Experiment in Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read ...	John Maynard Keynes	George Bernard Shaw	letter to John Maynard Keynes, 11 December 1935	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.'	Virginia Woolf	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl...	Virginia Woolf	Chateaubriand	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	'Italian novel'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A...	Virginia Woolf	Vittorio Alfieri	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A...	Virginia Woolf	John Summerson	John Nash, Architect to King George IV	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A...	Virginia Woolf	Annie S. Swan	My Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more ra...	Virginia Woolf	Stephen Spender	The Destructive Element	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its pri...	Virginia Woolf	Howard Overing Sturgis	Belchamber	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has ju...	Virginia Woolf	D. H. Lawrence	Aaron's Rod	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 20 May 1935: 'Quentin bought an Italian paper & read of [T. E.] Lawrence's death.'	Quentin Bell	anon	report of death of T. E. Lawrence	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha...	Virginia Woolf	Katherine Mansfield	The Letters of Katherine Mansfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha...	Virginia Woolf	Stendhal	'on Rome'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothin...	Virginia Woolf	Ruth Gruber	Virginia Woolf: A Study
	1900-1945	Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.	Virginia Woolf	Emily Hilda Young	Miss Mole	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.	Virginia Woolf	Abbe Dunnet	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.	Virginia Woolf	John Dryden	The Hind and the Panther	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'	Virginia Woolf	John Dryden	The Hind and the Panther	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'	Virginia Woolf	Jessie Chambers	D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp...	Virginia Woolf	John Bailey	John Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and Diaries	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp...	Virginia Woolf	Vittorio Alfieri	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp...	Virginia Stephen	William Cowper	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'	Virginia Woolf	William Congreve	Love for Love	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'	Virginia Woolf	Sir Charles Mallett	Anthony Hope and His Books	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ...	Virginia Woolf	John Ford	The Lover's Melancholy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ...	Virginia Woolf	Mrs Easdale	Middle Age: 1885-1932	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it. I thought the opening r...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	The Dark Forest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with ...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Shaw	When I was a Child	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with ...	Arnold Bennett		United Methodist	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In the issue for December 23rd, 1915 of the NewYork "Nation" there is an extremely fine article on me by Stuart P. Sh...	Arnold Bennett	Stuart P. Sherman	[article on Arnold Bennett]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, "The Golovleff Family", (published by Knopf out your way) is a...	Arnold Bennett	Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltuikov	The Golovleff Family	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes tha...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	Mr Britling Sees It Through	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything ve...	Arnold Bennett	E.H. Anstruther	The Farm Servant	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Pla...	John Buchan	Plato	unknown	Print: Book, scholarly edition
	1900-1945	'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its...	Arnold Bennett	Theodore Dreiser	The Financier	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five yea...	Arnold Bennett		'Literary Notes and News'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five yea...	Arnold Bennett		Westminster Gazette	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which s...	Janet Case	Thomas Hardy	poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row ...	Virginia Woolf		Star	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.'	Leonard Woolf	Thomas Hardy	poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ...	Janet Case	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ...	Janet Case	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres...	Virginia Woolf	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 15 March 1919: '[Mary Agnes Hamilton] told me a curious thing about the sensibilities of my family -- Adrian ...	Adrian Stephen	Virginia Woolf	The Voyage Out	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as...	Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf	Diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I...	Virginia Woolf	Sir Thomas Browne	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- ...	Virginia Woolf	Mrs Humphry Ward	A Writer's Recollections	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read ...	Virginia Woolf	Mrs Humphry Ward	A Writer's Recollections	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac...	Virginia Woolf	Henry Festing Jones	Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Greville	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'.	Virginia Woolf	Thomas Hardy	The Trumpet-Major	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]...	Virginia Woolf	George Borrow	Wild Wales	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]...	Virginia Woolf	Harry J. Greenwall	The Strange Life of Willy Clarkson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.'	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'.	Virginia Woolf	Peter Quennell	Byron. The Years of Fame	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my c...	Virginia Woolf	Gustave Flaubert	letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s...	Sir Ronald Storrs	Dante Alighieri	Divine Comedy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s...	Sir Ronald Storrs	Homer	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s...	Sir Ronald Storrs	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.'	Virginia Woolf	Sir Thomas Browne	letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan...	Virginia Woolf	Colette	Mes Apprentisages	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan...	Virginia Woolf	Moliere	Le Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [......	Virginia Woolf	Leo Tolstoy	What Then Must We Do?	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yes...	Virginia Woolf	Howard Spring	review of Virginia Woolf, The Years	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Walter Scott	Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book,...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Harris	Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book,...	Arnold Bennett	Anton Chekhov	The Tales of Tchehov	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do ...	Arnold Bennett	Patrick MacGill	The Great Push	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a...	Francis Jeffrey	Robert Southey	Roderick, The Last of the Goths	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his...	Francis Jeffrey	William Wordsworth	Excursion, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You ought to read "He looked in my Window" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.'	Arnold Bennett	Robert Halifax	He Looked in my Window	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Swinnerton	Nocturne	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An...	Arnold Bennett	Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.'	Arnold Bennett	Samuel Butler	Notebooks	Print: Book
		'I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not go...	Francis Jeffrey	James Hogg	Pilgrims of the Sun, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.'	John Maynard Keynes	Virginia Woolf	The Years	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.'	Virginia Woolf	Honore de Balzac	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Readi...	Virginia Woolf	George Sand	Elle et Lui	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but ...	Virginia Woolf	Guy Chapman	Beckford	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] las...	Desmond MacCarthy	Desmond MacCarthy	lecture on Sir Leslie Stephen	Unknown
	1800-1849	'My two articles in your work has [sic] been very much praised in this country. Prof. Wilson said in a very large publ...	John Wilson	James Hogg	'Cameronian Preacher's Tale, The'	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.	Virginia Woolf	Honore de Balzac	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.	Virginia Woolf	Augustine Birrell	Things Past Redress	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] ...	Lady Ottoline Morrell	Henry James	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'.	Virginia Woolf	Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse,...	Virginia Woolf	unknown	Greek verse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 1 September 1937: 'A violent attack on 3 Gs in Scrutiny by Q. Leavis. I dont think it gave me an entire singl...	Virginia Woolf	Queenie Leavis	Review of Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the...	Virginia Woolf	Madame de Sevigne	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the...	Virginia Woolf	Siegfried Sassoon	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.'	Virginia Woolf	Geoffrey Chaucer	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 16 November 1938: 'Dinner at Clive [Bell]'s [...] we all talked: about Jews: about Clive's lunch party with ...	Leonard Woolf		Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...	Virginia Woolf	T. S. Eliot	valedictory editorial article	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...	Virginia Woolf	Eugene Delacroix	Journal de Eugene Delacroix	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme th...	Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf	Diary (17 May 1932)	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually ove...	Virginia Woolf	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mont Blanc	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out Â£10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a c...	Virginia Woolf	T. S. Eliot	The Family Reunion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It start...	Virginia Woolf	T. S. Eliot	The Family Reunion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.'	Virginia Woolf	Sir Edward Marsh	A Number of People	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault...	Virginia Woolf	Rochefoucauld	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction:...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno...	Virginia Woolf	Adolf Hitler	Speech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression Pact	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno...	Virginia Woolf	Geoffrey Chaucer	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t...	Virginia Woolf	Blaise Pascal	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t...	Virginia Woolf	Walter Pater	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting kn...	Virginia Woolf	Andre Gide	Andre Gide's Journal 1885-1939	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may ...	Virginia Woolf	Theophrastus	'Characters'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scop...	Virginia Woolf	Sigmund Freud	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivale...	Virginia Woolf	Sigmund Freud	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...	Virginia Woolf	Sigmund Freud	Group Psychology	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Ricketts	Self-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals of Charles Ricketts, RA	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...	Virginia Woolf	Lord Herbert	Letters and Diaries of Henry, Tenth Earl of Pembroke and his Circle, 1734-80	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	The Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Nature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Crabbe		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural s...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Wiiliam Howitt		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We are 'here today, & gone tomorrow', as the fat scullion maid said in some extract in Holland's Exercise book.'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Holland	[Exercise book]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on s...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	'Deserted House, The'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.' ['all this' refers...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Robert Southey	Doctor, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After breakfast we read, sauntered in the beautiful garden, called on the Howitts, shopped (so amusing) received call...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell			Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Harriet Martineau	Hour and the Man, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Harriet Martineau	Deerbrook	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'All morng [sic] we sat with books in our hands but not reading much, only talking. After lunch (at 12) I went out wit...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell			Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the perso...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shall you have any objection to the name of 'Stephen Berwick' as that of the author of 'Mary Barton' which I have jus...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		[advertisement for 'Mary Barton' in Edinburgh Review]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Ho...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Catherine Crowe	Susan Hopley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Times, The	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I had the Sunday School girls here last Sunday, and Susanna came to help me, and I thought we went off gloriously, on...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Walter Scott	Kenilworth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Elizabeth Gaskell	Mary Barton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Thomas Carlyle	[letter approving 'Mary Barton']	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Forster	Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Forster	Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I try and find out the places where Mr Forster said I strained after common-place materials for effect, till the whol...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Forster	[review, probably in 'The Examiner' of 'Mary Barton']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I had a letter from Carlyle, and when I am over-filled with thoughts arising from this book, I put it all aside, (or ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Thomas Carlyle	[encouraging letter about 'Mary Barton']	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Did you read a little piece of Carlyles on the death of Charles Buller, that appeared about a month ago in the London...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Thomas Carlyle	[article in 'London Examiner' on Chas Buller]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I forgot in my last letter to say that I found Beerâ€™s book very good, certainly useful to me. [Clifford Beer, "A M...	Arnold Bennett	Clifford Beer	A Mind That Found Itself	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I ...	Virginia Woolf	John Stuart Mill	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi...	Virginia Woolf	Winifred Holtby	South Riding	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi...	Virginia Woolf	Edmund Burke	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ...	Virginia Woolf	anon	mock epitaph for Virginia Woolf	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ...	Virginia Woolf	Henry Havelock Ellis	My Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost...	Virginia Woolf	A. B. Goldenveizer	Talks with Tolstoi	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost...	Virginia Stephen	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot...	Virginia Woolf	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin...	Virginia Woolf	William Wordsworth	letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin...	Virginia Woolf	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin...	Virginia Woolf	G. K. Chesterton	Thomas Aquinas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.'	Virginia Woolf	Honore de Balzac	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- a...	Virginia Woolf	William Wordsworth	letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. Ho...	Virginia Woolf	Percy Bysshe Shelley	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay...	Virginia Woolf	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Biographia Literaria	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay...	Virginia Woolf	Sir Leslie Stephen	essay on Coleridge	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in ...	Virginia Woolf		Scrutiny	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l...	Virginia Woolf	Madame de Sevigne	letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l...	Virginia Woolf	Henry Williamson	Goodbye West Country	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] H...	Virginia Woolf	Henry Williamson	Goodbye West Country	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London...	Virginia Woolf	F. L. Lucas	Studies French and English	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations again...	Virginia Woolf	Jules Michelet	Histoire de France	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg...	Virginia Woolf	Jules Michelet	Histoire de France vol.15	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg...	Virginia Woolf	G. M. Trevelyan	History of England	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of...	Virginia Woolf	E. F. Benson	Final Edition, an Informal Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I ...	Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf	'The Leaning Tower'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet mak...	Virginia Woolf	Herbert Read	Annals of Innocence and Experience	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiograph...	Virginia Woolf	Herbert Read	Annals of Innocence and Experience	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart. 'The foot less prompt to ...	Virginia Woolf	Matthew Arnold	Thyrsis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, L...	Virginia Woolf	anon	account of the Great Fire of London	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too slop...	Virginia Woolf	Desmond MacCarthy	Drama	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 15 January 1941: 'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in...	Katherine Mansfield	James Joyce	Ulysses	Manuscript: Typescript
	1900-1945	Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.'	Virginia Woolf	Andre Gide	La Porte Etroite	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We have had a very blowing night [...] I was set this morning very gingerly by the fire-side in an elbow chair I had ...	Janet Schaw	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made f...	Fanny Rutherfurd	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Elements of Criticism	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made f...	Fanny Rutherfurd	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Elements of Criticism	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,...	Janet Schaw	William Shakespeare	Henry IV	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have seen a newspaper published by the [Wilmington] committee's order, where the whole story of the battle [of Bunk...	Janet Schaw		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did ...	Janet Schaw	Sir William Chambers	A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addr...	John Kenyon	Harriet Martineau	extract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting seance	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline...	Virginia Stephen	William Shakespeare	Cymbeline	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...'	Virginia Stephen	Christopher Marlowe	Dr Faustus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...'	Virginia Stephen	Christopher Marlowe	Edward II	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undou...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Leigh Hunt	The Wishing Cap	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Sam Greg	[remarks on Gaskell's 'Mary Barton']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Arthur Hugh Clough	Ambarvalia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Francis Espinasse	[prospectus]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'.	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		[review of 'Margaret, a tale of the Real and the Ideal']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'.	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Sylvester Judd	Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfi...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'.	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Alexander Crawford, Lord Lindsay	Lives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses of Crawford and Balcarres	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is a...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Henry Newman	[possibly] Discourses to Mixed Congregations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wro...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Shirley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Kingsley		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics] Is [end italics] Miss Jewsbury's review shallow? It looked to me very deep, but then I know I'm easily impo...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Geraldine Jewsbury	[unknown review]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Henry Newman	[Sermons]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the p...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sor...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Maggie Bell	[MS. novel]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	W.C. DeVane	[review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Day']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it i...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Shirley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Ho...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Caroline Emelia Stephen	Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that st...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Frederick Denison Maurice	[Sermon on 'Religion versus God']	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I ge...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Thomas Carlyle	Sartor Resartus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own ...	Fanny	Elizabeth Gaskell	Libbie Marsh's Three Eras	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Ruskin	Modern Painters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Ruskin	Modern Painters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Leader, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Whewell	Fraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pendennis]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I felt rather lonely this Morning at breakfast so I went and unbox'd a Shakspeare - "There's my Comfort".	John Keats	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.- "The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought, A...	John Keats	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Ruskin	Seven Lamps of Architecture, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Catherine Cuthbertson	Santo Sebastiano: or, The Young Protector	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got v...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	H. Morley	Palissy the Potter	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The "North British Review"had a [italics] delicious [end italics] review of "Ruth" in it. Who the deuce could have wr...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		North British Review [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in eve...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Literary Gazette [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in eve...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		[various periodicals: reviews of Gaskell's 'Ruth']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own...	R. Monckton Milnes	Elizabeth Gaskell	Ruth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yes! I did read that letter of 'First Hand'; - those letters inded, and I liked the whole tone and mode of expression...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		[letter of a 'First Hand']	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil bei...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Thomas Hood	'Lady's Dream, The'	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my good...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Villette	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pam...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Joseph Kay	Condition of Poor Children in English and German Towns
	1850-1899	'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) whi...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Frederick Perthes	Memoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religious and Political Life in Germany from 1789 to 1848	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmu...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	James Crossley	'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Mrs Granville	[tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have thanked you (mentally) very much for Folious Appearances, the humour, strength - and even affectation of which...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Tupling	Folious appearances. a consideration on our ways of lettering books	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, lo...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Times, The [review of H.F. Chorley's play 'The Duchess Eleanor']	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Henry Morley	'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says l...	Florence Nightingale	Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Anna Jameson	Commonplace Book of Thoughts, A	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I was exceedingly interested and touched by that Soldier's Story. It is very 'war-music'al, & comes in beautifully ju...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Household Words [?]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me o...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Shirley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure beca...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Fairbairn	[remarks on 'North and South']	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	[letters to Ellen Nussey]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Dickens	Little Dorrit	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	[letters to W.S. Williams]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot te...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		[book on Yorkshire]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	[manuscripts]	Manuscript: books
	1850-1899	'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Blake	[manuscripts]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only suc...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Professor, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I...	John Maynard Keynes	John Maynard Keynes	'Memoir Club' paper	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[in...	Virginia Woolf	R. H. Tawney		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger...	Virginia Woolf	Francis Steegmuller	Flaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double Portrait	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger...	Virginia Woolf	Jacques Emile Blanche	More Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger...	Virginia Woolf	Roger Fry	Last Lectures	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger...	Virginia Woolf		'life of Erasmus'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	Little Dorrit	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo...	Virginia Woolf	Gerald Heard	Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of inte...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		[verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life,...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Professor, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. W...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Examiner, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesti...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Professor, The
	1850-1899	'I don't think you know how much good your letter did me. In the first place I was really afraid that you did not like...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Fairbairn	[letter offering his opinion of Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bronte]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	E.B. Eastwick ['ed']	Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman : and his translations with his fellow-creatures	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Bombay Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Athenaeum [review of Eastwick's 'Lutfullah']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Currer Bell [pseud.]	Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Times, The	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John W. Kaye	[possibly] Administration of the East India Company, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Malcolm	[possibly] Government of India, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printe...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Homeward Mail, The	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecat...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Francis James Child	Ballads	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Eliot Norton	[articles in the 'Atlantic Monthly' on India and an exhibition]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Thomas Carlyle	[article in the 'Atlantic Monthly']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Atlantic Monthly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they beg...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	Scenes from Clerical Life	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Richard Monckton Milnes	'Lucknow'	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		Atlantic Monthly	Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
	1850-1899	'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Elder	Biography of Elisha Kent Kane	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	James Parton	Life and Times of Aaron Burr, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	James Parton	[Life of Barnum]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Pari...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Francis Henry Egerton	Apercu Historique et genealogique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I understand from Mr. Bagguley that it is you who are the craftsman of the binding of the "Candide" which he has been...	Arnold Bennett	Voltaire	Candide	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I donâ€™t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	Fortitude	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I donâ€™t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	The Duchess of Wrexe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ...	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	Victory	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ...	Arnold Bennett	Joseph Conrad	Chance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Bealby	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is th...	Arnold Bennett	Thucydides	[Histories]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "Lâ€™Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto...	Arnold Bennett	Gustave Flaubert	L'Education Sentimentale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "Lâ€™Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto...	Arnold Bennett	Gustave Flaubert	Un Coeur Simple	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "Lâ€™Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto...	Arnold Bennett	Anatole France	La Rotisserie de la reine PÃ©dauque	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "Lâ€™Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto...	Arnold Bennett	Anatole France	Thais	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "Lâ€™Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Louis Philippe	Bubu de Montparnasse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "Lâ€™Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto...	Arnold Bennett	Lytton Strachey	Eminent Victorians	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read Â¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday be...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I see in an advertisement of the contents of a Magazine (the Psychological) of which I believe you are the Editor, a ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	[advertisement for the 'Psychological' magazine]	Print: Advertisement
	1850-1899	[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Hendschel	Telegraph	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu...	Florence Elizabeth Gaskell	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wish...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Christian Karl Josias Bunsen	Lyra Germanica	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read the [italics] Subsidiary Notes [end italics] first. It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Florence Nightingale	Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hosptal Administration of the British Army	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I tell [Mr Aide] my "honest opinion" of his [italics] first [end italics] volume at any rate: It introduces one just ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Mr Aide	Rita	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	Amos Barton	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	Adam Bede	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of "Adam Bede" out of generosity] and sa...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[unknown]	Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I received the copy of "Adam Bede" which you were so kind as to send me quite safely; and I am very much obliged to y...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	Adam Bede	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yes! I found the American cookery books here when we got home, (Decr 20th) and many many thanks. we can't understand ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[unknown]	[American cookery books]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	G.W. Dasent	Popular Tales from the Norse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Times, The	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Herbert Grey	Three Paths, The	Unknown
	1850-1899	'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Arthur Helps	Friends in Council	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Daniel Defoe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our f...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Robert Chambers	Domestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Times, The	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Henrietta Jenkin	Cousin Stella	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Henry Brooke	Fool of Quality, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conject...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Stuart Mill	On Liberty	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but M...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	Adam Bede	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Wordsworth	Excursion, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Thomas de Quincey	Miscellanies	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Harriet Martineau	Complete Guide to the English Lakes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I me...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William White	Travel in Northumberland and the Border	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Marble Faun, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanl...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Historical Memorials of Canterbury	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	Janet's Repentance	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about "Marian" [Evans]. The...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Ellen Raynard	Missing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of The London Poor	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	Scenes from Clerical Life	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	Adam Bede	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read t...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud.]	'Amos Barton'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Francis Mahoney	[Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the persona of 'Father Prout']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Francis Mahoney	[Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Anthony Trollope	Framley Parsonage	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Makepeace Thackeray	Lovel the Widower	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Cornhill Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Sk...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Dickens	All the Year Round [article]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her lette...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Madame Mohl	[review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame Recamier]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of "Cousin Stella" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I k...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Henrietta Camilla Jenkin	Cousin Stella	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Anthony Trollope	Framley Parsonage	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. T...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Annual Register	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[unknown]	Melle Mori	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] an...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Eliot Norton	New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	George Eliot [pseud]	Mill on the Floss, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end ital...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[unknown]	[anthology of laudatory sonnets]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they wi...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[unknown]	London Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	[German/English dictionary]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	[Manchester newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ...	Florence Elizabeth Gaskell	Wilhelm Meinhold	Amber Witch, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art &...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Eliot Norton	Notes of Travel and Study in Italy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Edward Wilberforce	'Purgatory'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Fraser's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Henry Vaughan	Silex Scintillans	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Henry Vaughan	They are all gone into the world of light	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	[newspaper acconts of events in America in run up to Civil War]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have been so ungrateful in never thanking you for your last - and for that [italics] beautiful] end italics] noble ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Eliot Norton	[paper on 'The Advantages of Defeat]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as ev...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Marble Faun, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more val...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Hamilton Aide	Carr of Carrlyon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I co...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Frederick Harrison	[MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quarterma...	Arnold Bennett	T. S. Eliot	unknown	Unknown
	1850-1899	'I hope that you will not measure my gratitude to you for so kindly sending the Cleopatra-poem, by my promptitude in w...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Wetmore Story	Cleopatra	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end itali...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Elizabeth C. Akers	Two Summers	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end itali...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	[American newspaper extracts]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Do you read the Sunday Times? It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the f...	Arnold Bennett	Spencer Wilkinson	Sunday Times articles	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Have you read Dolly Richardsonâ€™s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.'	Arnold Bennett	Dorothy M. Richardson	Backwater	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This is a very good number. The Wells review seems most just, but I havenâ€™t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	The Soul of a Bishop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This is a very good number. [The New Statesman]. The Wells review seems most just, but I havenâ€™t yet finished the ...	Arnold Bennett		The New Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldnâ€™t get the book off Marguerite....	Arnold Bennett	Frank Swinnerton	Shops and Houses	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldnâ€™t get the book off Marguerite....	Arnold Bennett	Frank Swinnerton	On the Staircase	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the pla...	Arnold Bennett	E.V. Lucas	The Sane Star	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberlandâ€™s" A Book of Reminisce...	Arnold Bennett		National News	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't car...	Florence De Quincey	James T. Fields	"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't car...	Florence De Quincey	Nathaniel Hawthorne	"Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't car...	Florence De Quincey	Henry W. Longfellow	"Footprints of Angels" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	[Report of the Sanitary Commission]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Atlantic Monthly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[poem]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Alexander Pope	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which look...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	John Addington Symonds	Thoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I w...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	James Russell Lowell	Fireside Travels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading "Tony Butler" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's "...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Lever	Tony Butler	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Maggie Elliott	[story with title like 'Jem']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News ...	Florence Elizabeth Crompton	[n/a]	Daily News	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'are you in a generous humour, and will you give me "the Gayworthys" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		[reviews of 'The Gayworthys' by Mrs ADT Whitney]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[unknown]	[book on portraits of Dante]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	James R. Lowell	Fireside Travels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	James R. Lowell	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	James R. Lowell	Biglow Papers, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [ita...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Pall Mall Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'	Virginia Woolf	Euripides	The Bacchae	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent,...	Virginia Woolf	Julia Mary Cartwright Ady	The Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart.	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'	Virginia Woolf	Alice Stopford Green	Town Life in the Fifteenth Century	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.'	Virginia Woolf	J.W. Mackail	Life of William Morris	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'	Virginia Woolf	Austen Henry Layard	Nineveh	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'	Virginia Woolf	unknown	[History of Music]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.'	Virginia Woolf	Rhoda Broughton	Not Wisely but Too Well	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.'	Virginia Woolf		The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hard...	Virginia Woolf	Henry James	The Golden Bowl	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just rec...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Cox Bennett	Baby May and Other Poems on Infants	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just rec...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	William Cox Bennett	Triumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad
	1850-1899	'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'.	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Julius Hare	Guesses at Truth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'.	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Inquirer, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'	Marianne Gaskell	[unknown]	[a history of the French Revolution]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'.	Marianne Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "P...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[n/a]	Times, The	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	[letters]	Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (ve...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Ellen Nussey	[account of Anne Bronte's death]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are ...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Par...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[unknown]	[French]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	[unknown]	[letter to Marianne Gaskell]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Julia Kavanagh	[possibly] French Women of Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you...	Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland	George Crabbe	Parish Register, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you...	Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland	George Crabbe	Library, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you...	Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland	George Crabbe	Village, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita...	John Crabbe	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e...	Antonia White	Florence MacCunn	Sir Walter Scott's Friends	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e...	Antonia White	David Herbert Lawrence	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e...	Antonia White	David Herbert Lawrence	[works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e...	Antonia White	Thomas Carlyle	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e...	Antonia White	J. Soames	[article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinkin...	Antonia White	Thomas Carlyle	[Works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Ja...	Antonia White	Jane Welsh	[letters to Carlyle]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare...	Antonia White	Jane Welsh	[letters to Carlyle]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901: 'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over...	Leonard Woolf		The Book of Job	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 April 1901: 'I have been in the wilderness to-day but before I end I must tell ...	Leonard Woolf	Charles Marriott	The Column	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901: 'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refus...	Leonard Woolf	Honore De Balzac	Le Pere Goriot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts o...	Leonard Woolf	Thomas Kyd	The Spanish Tragedy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper ...	Leonard Woolf		The Pall Mall Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 April 1902: 'I have read nothing [over Easter vacation] except a book by the ne...	Leonard Woolf	Maxim Gorky	Foma Gordyeeff	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 8 April 1902: 'I was glad to hear you had really read it [Le Pere Goriot] & I agr...	Lytton Strachey	Honore de Balzac	Le Pere Goriot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ...	Leonard Woolf	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Turkish Tales'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ...	Leonard Woolf	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ...	Leonard Woolf	Joris Karl Huysmans	A Rebours	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...	Leonard Woolf	George Bernard Shaw		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It incl...	Leonard Woolf	Arthur Schopenhauer		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...	Leonard Woolf	Barry Pain		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...	Leonard Woolf	Robert Browning		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...	Leonard Woolf	Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...	Leonard Woolf	Oscar Wilde		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...	Leonard Woolf	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...	Leonard Woolf		A Manual of Ethics	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...	Leonard Woolf	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 20 June 1903: 'Are you in London & are you going to bring your [cricket] team...	Leonard Woolf	George Stout	[on Psychology]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 December 1904: 'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees &...	Leonard Woolf		Times Literary Supplement	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905: 'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & ...	Leonard Woolf	Henry James		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905: 'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to trave...	Leonard Woolf	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi...	Leonard Woolf	Alfred de Vigny		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi...	Leonard Woolf	R. B. O'Brien	The Life of Parnell	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi...	Leonard Woolf	R. B. O'Brien	The Life of Russell	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi...	Leonard Woolf	Benjamin Disraeli	Coningsby	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi...	Leonard Woolf	Voltaire	La Dictionnaire Philosophique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905: 'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only ex...	Leonard Woolf	Denis Diderot		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905: 'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent...	Leonard Woolf	Henry James	The Golden Bowl	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905: 'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 thin...	Leonard Woolf	Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al	Euphrosne	Unknown
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905: 'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordi...	Leonard Woolf	E. M. Forster	Where Angels Fear to Tread	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ...	Leonard Woolf	Voltaire	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ...	Leonard Woolf	Joris Karl Huysmans		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ...	Leonard Woolf	Henry James		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So man...	Antonia White	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'	Antonia White	[unknown]	[MSS by or about Carlyle]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-right...	Antonia White	Harriet Martineau	[works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] h...	Antonia White	Jane Welsh	[letters to Carlyle]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[included in diary entry] SANTAYANA ('Reason in Common Sense') "There may well be intense consciousness in the total...	Antonia White	George Santayana	Reason in Common Sense	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817) "negative capabil...	Antonia White	John Keats	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'.	Antonia White	John Keats	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital...	Antonia White	Field	[book on child psychology]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital...	Antonia White	Humphrey Jennings	Little town in France	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not w...	Antonia White	Marcel Proust	[works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave ...	Antonia White	Tom Hopkinson	[diary notebook]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: th...	Antonia White	Peter Warlock	[letters]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading...	Antonia White	Francis Thompson	[poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better...	Antonia White	David Herbert Lawrence	Captain's Doll, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] boulev...	Antonia White	John Woolman	Journal of John Woolman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference betwee...	Antonia White	Charlotte d'Erlanger	[unknown]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke ret...	Antonia White	Rainer Maria Rilke	Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ...	Antonia White	Rainer Maria Rilke	Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ...	Antonia White	[unknown]	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen ...	Antonia White	[unknown]	['trash']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished ...	Antonia White	Rainer Maria Rilke	[works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no...	Antonia White	[unknown]	['lives of painters']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no...	Antonia White	[unknown]	['journals of poets']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook Free spirit liable to possession or obsession... Debauchery is t...	Antonia White	Eric Siepmann	[notebook]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had...	Antonia White	Tom Hopkinson	I have been Drowned	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had...	Antonia White	Djuna Barnes	Nightwood	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had...	Antonia White	Emily	[poems entitled 'Melville' and 'The Creation']	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same f...	Antonia White	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Brothers Karamazov, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not ...	Antonia White	Frances Grigson	[letters to Tom Hopkinson]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on...	Antonia White	Hoare	[article on Rimbaud]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on...	Antonia White	[n/a]	Vogue	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her....	Antonia White	Emily Coleman	Tigron, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ...	Antonia White	William Wordsworth	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly...	Antonia White	Andre Breton	Nadja	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'.	Antonia White	Basil Nicholson	Business is Business	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear,...	Antonia White	Charles Darwin	Voyage of the Beagle, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding ...	Antonia White	Charles Darwin	Voyage of the Beagle, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali...	Antonia White	Gustave Flaubert	Bouvard et Pecuchet	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Her [Laura Riding's] talent I cannot judge, having seen too little. Much of what I have seen seems a nervous and comp...	Antonia White	Laura Riding	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see ...	Antonia White	Katherine Mansfield	[letters]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading he...	Antonia White	Christine Botting	[diary]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.'	Susan Glossop	Antonia White	Frost at Midnight	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read one of the green volumes of notes [diary] to him [Ian] (Sept to Nov 1937). It interested him very much, said i...	Antonia White	Antonia White	[diary]	Manuscript: Codex, green notebook
	1900-1945	'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read ...	Antonia White	George Eliot [pseud.]	Mill on the Floss, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...	Antonia White	George Eliot [pseud.]	Mill on the Floss, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...	Antonia White	George Eliot [pseud.]	Adam Bede	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...	Antonia White	George Eliot [pseud.]	Middlemarch	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...	Antonia White	[unknown]	[a life of George Eliot]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his inventi...	Antonia White	David Herbert Lawrence	Captain's Doll, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion ge...	Antonia White	Antonia White	[diary notebooks]	Manuscript: Codex, notebook
	1900-1945	'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the...	Antonia White	John Forster	Life of Charles Dickens, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot...	Antonia White	Tom Hopkinson	Man Below, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee...	Antonia White	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee...	Antonia White	Arthur Conan Doyle	[Sherlock Holmes Stories]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee...	Antonia White	Emily Coleman	[unknown]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [e...	Antonia White	[n/a]	New Statesman, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i...	Antonia White	George Eliot	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i...	Antonia White	[n/a]	[an American magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The shock last night when Ian was cold and unenthusiastic about the first bit of the book which I'd managed to write....	Ian Henderson	Antonia White	[MS fiction]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, f...	Antonia White	George Sand	[letters to and from Flaubert]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attemp...	Antonia White	Virginia Woolf	Jacob's Room	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journ...	Antonia White	Julien Green	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ...	Antonia White	George Tyrrell	[Jesuit writings]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ...	Antonia White	[unknown]	[Catholic texts]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a long time, I felt impelled to read through this book again in the hopes of finding some clues.' [AW has falle...	Antonia White	Antonia White	[diaries]	Manuscript: Codex, notebook
	1900-1945	'It's the old thing which came up so clearly in analysis as I see reading through these notes - the [italics] keeping ...	Antonia White	Antonia White	[diaries]	Manuscript: Codex, notebook
	1900-1945	'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'.	Antonia White	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic...	Antonia White	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand t...	Antonia White	[n/a]	[Gospels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a...	Antonia White	[unknown]	[writings about religion, Church History, etc]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a...	Antonia White	Walter Hylton	Scala Perfectionis, or Ladder of Perfection	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a...	Antonia White	Julian of Norwich	Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevlyan, 11 February 1906: 'Very many thanks for Fry's book [The Discourses of Sir Joshua ...	Leonard Woolf	Roger Fry	The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906: 'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I b...	Leonard Woolf	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 November 1906: 'I was reading La Bruyere today with the irritation against [Joh...	Leonard Woolf	Jean de la Bruyere		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907: 'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I...	Leonard Woolf	Sir George Otto Trevelyan	The Competition Wallah	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907: 'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an as...	Leonard Woolf	E. M. Forster	The Longest Journey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 15 September 1907: 'I have just read [Francis Cornford's] Thucydides Mythistoricu...	Leonard Woolf	Francis Cornford	Thucydides Mythistoricus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907: 'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the trai...	Leonard Woolf	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 November 1908: 'I have been reading Forster's last book [A Room with a View] &...	Leonard Woolf	E. M. Forster	A Room with a View	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to G. E. Moore, 4 January 1909: 'I don't think you realize how pleased I was to get your letter & pap...	Leonard Woolf	G. E. Moore	'Professor James' "Pragmatism"'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the boo...	Leonard Woolf	Guy de Maupassant	'tale'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the boo...	Leonard Woolf	Earl of Cromer	Modern Egypt	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 February 1911: 'The Times gave me quite a shock the other day to see that A. S....	Leonard Woolf		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ...	Leonard Woolf	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ...	Leonard Woolf	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Les Freres Karamazov	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912: 'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can ...	Leonard Woolf	Virginia Stephen	fiction MSS	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1 September 1912: 'No one has ever given or lent me anything more useful than...	Leonard Woolf		Spanish dictionary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912: 'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolate...	Virginia Woolf		The Strand Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia read...	Virginia Woolf		The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia read...	Leonard Woolf		Poor Law Minority Report	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writin...	Leonard Woolf		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writin...	Leonard Woolf		The Times Literary Supplement	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's ...	Giles Lytton Strachey	Lytton Strachey	Life of Cardinal Manning	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains....	Leonard Woolf	Hurrell Froude	Remains	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains....	Leonard Woolf	John Henry Newman	Apologia pro vita sua	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916: 'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laug...	Leonard Woolf	Lytton Strachey	Life of Dr Arnold	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923: 'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy jour...	Leonard Woolf		report of death of Samuel Garrett	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928: 'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell...	Leonard Woolf	Dorothy Osborne	The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to T. S. Eliot, 5 May 1930: 'You are the only living poet I can read twice; only in your case I canno...	Leonard Woolf	T. S. Eliot	Ash Wednesday	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o...	Leonard Woolf	Horace	Satires	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o...	Leonard Woolf		Classical Greek texts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book whic...	Leonard Woolf	H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler	The King's English	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book whic...	Leonard Woolf	Marie Corelli	extracts from novels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Edmund Blunden, 14 August 1924: 'I admired your book on Clare very much. It passed through my hand...	Leonard Woolf	John Clare	Madrigals & Chronicles: Being newly found Poems written by John Clare	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933: 'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which...	Leonard Woolf	Frank Hardie	'Youth, Socialism and Peace'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940: 'I read your article on th...	Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes	Leonard Woolf	article on 'the politician and the intellectual'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re...	Leonard Woolf	Turgenev		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re...	Leonard Woolf	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end itali...	Jonathan Swift	Alexander Pope	Dunciad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri...	'a Lady of Distinction'	Laetitia Pilkington	Paper	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri...	Anne Wainwright	Laetitia Pilkington	Paper	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri...	John, Baron Wainwright	Laetitia Pilkington	Paper	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute...	Jonathan Swift	Laetitia Pilkington	Paper	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute...	Jonathan Swift	Laetitia Pilkington	Sent with a Quill to Dr Swift	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in...	Jonathan Swift	Matthew Pilkington	[letter to Laetitia Pilkington, about Pope]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem...	Jonathan Swift	Samuel Butler	Hudibras	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Various	Autographs	Manuscript: Autographs
	1800-1849	'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-temp...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Thomas Carlyle	Letter dated 20th January 1825	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end itali...	Henry Pelham	Laetitia Pilkington	To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them t...	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Laetitia Pilkington	[Poems]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Edmond Curll said to LP] 'I have received from [italics] Ireland [end italics], from your Husband, the Life of Alderm...	Edmond Curll	Matthew Pilkington	[Life of Barber]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Sir Hans Sloane] considered my Letter over, and finding, by the contents, Doctor [italics] Mead [end italics] recomm...	Hans Sloane	Laetitia Pilkington	[Letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Mrs Montagu	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the let...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Mrs Montagu	Letter dated 13 June	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	I had two sheets from Mrs Montagu the other day trying to prove to me that I knew nothing at all of my own heart (Merc...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Mrs Montagu	Letter dated 3 July	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'My dearest I thought to write to you from this place with joy; I write with shame and tears. The enclosed letter,...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Mrs Montagu	Letter dated 20 July	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'My own, best, dearest Love I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Thomas Carlyle	Letter dated 29th July 1825	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at ...	Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf	"memoir of Old Bloomsbury"	Unknown
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898: 'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir T...	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Rutherford Crockett	The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898: 'I will tell how I spent my prize money. I got Browning's Poems ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898: 'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek...	Edward Morgan Forster	Edward Morgan Forster	"The Greek Feeling for Nature"	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m...	Edward Morgan Forster		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m...	Edward Morgan Forster		The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m...	Edward Morgan Forster		Nature Notes	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899: 'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jabez Bunting Dimbleby		Print: Book
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry James	Portrait of a Lady	Print: Book
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home...	Edward Morgan Forster	Maurice Hewlett	The Forest Lovers: A Romance	Print: Book
	1850-1899	E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 5 November 1899: 'I have been reading Bernard Shaw's plays. Wonderfully cleve...	Edward Morgan Forster	George Bernard Shaw	plays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Coun...	Edward Morgan Forster		'The Child's first Lesebuch'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.'	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Butler	Erewhon; or, Over the Range	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 11 April 1905: 'Have you read Erewhon? Now I'm at Marius the Epicurean.'	Edward Morgan Forster	Walter Pater	Marius the Epicurean	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 2 July 1905: 'In the evening I read Elizabeth [employer] "Emma". Liebeth [emp...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day: ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day: ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Anatole France	Thais	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906: 'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicise...	Edward Morgan Forster	Joris-Karl Huysmans	La Cathedrale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907: 'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Edward Garnett	A Censored Play: The Breaking Point	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908: 'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and f...	Edward Morgan Forster	Hugh Walpole	The Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910: 'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was goin...	Edward Morgan Forster	Ernest B. Havell	Indian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanation of Their Motives and Ideals	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910: 'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappo...	Edward Morgan Forster	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Grace Baillie Welsh	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Mrs Montagu	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	[Two gentlemen came in to LP's shop and saw her with an MS volume of her Memoirs open in front of her; they inquired a...	an earl	Laetitia Pilkington	[Memoirs and Poems]	Manuscript: volume
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910: 'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are pas...	Edward Morgan Forster	Edward Gibbon	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910: 'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining bo...	Edward Morgan Forster	Niccolo Manucci	Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 August 1910: 'Do you get any time for reading? I am taking huge chunks of Mat ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Matthew Arnold		Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Sir Alfred C. Lyall	British Dominion in India	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Alice Perrin	Idolatry	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Alice Perrin		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra...	Edward Morgan Forster	Sir Alfred C. Lyall	Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra...	Edward Morgan Forster	G. F. I. Graham	The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming...	Edward Morgan Forster	Rudyard Kipling	Puck of Pook's Hill	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming...	Edward Morgan Forster	H. G. Wells	The New Machiavelli	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming...	Edward Morgan Forster	Rosalind Murray	The Leading Note	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming...	Edward Morgan Forster	A. Felix Wedgwood	The Shadow of a Titan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- t...	Edward Morgan Forster	Valentine Chiriol	Indian Unrest	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911: 'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Thomas Hardy	novels	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912: 'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it d...	Edward Morgan Forster	Forrest Reid	The Bracknels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	George Moore	Ave	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	G. L. Strachey	Landmarks in French Literature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	J. T. Sheppard	Greek Tragedy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	Mme Augustine Bulteau	L'Ame des Anglais	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	Andre Chevrillon	Dans L'Inde	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	Forrest Reid	The Bracknels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	Lascelles Abercrombie	Emblems of Love	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	Edith Wharton	Ethan Frome	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...	Edward Morgan Forster	Max Beerbohm	Zuleika Dobson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912: 'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Miss Wright	poem	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie...	Edward Morgan Forster	William James	Memories and Studies	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie...	Edward Morgan Forster	Walter de la Mare	The Return	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie...	Edward Morgan Forster	Amber Reeves	The Reward of Virtue	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912: 'Dear Woolf 'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Leonard Woolf	story	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912: 'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Richard Barham Middleton	'The Ghost Ship'
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 13 December 1912: 'I have read Following Darkness again, and am happier than I can t...	Edward Morgan Forster	Forrest Reid	Following Darkness	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 2 February 1913: 'I sent F[ollowing].D[arkness]. to a woman of another kind [i.e. th...	anon	Forrest Reid	Following Darkness	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Ge...	a gentleman	Laetitia Pilkington	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it w...	Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen	[unknown]	[book on wild flowers]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Author...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	[n/a]	[press cuttings - subject unknown]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ...	Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen	Clifford Bax	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ...	Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen	Phyllis Reid	[poems]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	[n/a]	Daily Mail, The	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underl...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Edith Wharton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in t...	John Rodker	Ford Madox Ford	Good Soldier, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The last mail brought me your Dedicatory letter. I am [underlined] so [end underlining] touched & so very very proud....	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	[dedicatory letter to 'The Good Soldier']	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Isabel Paterson	[column in ] New York Herald Tribune Books	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	[unknown article about Ezra Pound]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ernest Hemingway	Sun Also Rises, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Violet Hunt	I Have This to Say	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered....	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	Thus to Revisit	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so ...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	Last Post, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't bel...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	Last Post, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've ...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	[chapters from 'It Was the Nightingale']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocea...	Janice Biala	[unknown]	[life and letters of Gauguin]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Isabel Paterson	[review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York Herald Tribune Book Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	W.R. Benet	'Uncle Ford'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'.	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Elizabeth Madox Roberts	Time of Man, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Thomas Hardy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Arnold Bennett	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Oscar Wilde	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Samuel Butler	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	George Bernard Shaw	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	David Herbert Lawrence	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Aldous Huxley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Katherine Mansfield	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and yo...	Virginia Woolf	Margaret Symonds	Days Spent on a Doge's Farm	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at ...	Virginia Woolf	William Shakespeare	Cymbeline	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o...	Virginia Woolf	Lewis Melville	The Thackeray Country	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o...	Virginia Woolf	F. G. Kitton	The Dickens Country	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Have you read a book called Dr Antonio by Ruffini (translated fr the Italian) If not do so now if possible. We have...	Cornelia Sorabji	Ruffini	Dr Antonio	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one â€“ from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C...	Cornelia Sorabji	Browning	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one â€“ from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C...	Cornelia Sorabji	Thackeray	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one â€“ from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C...	Cornelia Sorabji		Criminal Digest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Sir William Sleeman	Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Adam Cramb	Germany and England
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr...	Edward Morgan Forster	General Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi		Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr...	Edward Morgan Forster		'White Paper'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a n...	Edward Morgan Forster		notice on wartime safety measures	Print: ?poster ('notice')
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th...	Sydney Waterlow	E. M. Forster	Maurice	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of...	John Drummond Erskine	Niccolo Machiavelli	The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans ....	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol...	Edward Morgan Forster	Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin	Hyperion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol...	Edward Morgan Forster	D. H. Lawrence	The White Peacock	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor...	Edward Morgan Forster		The New Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor...	Edward Morgan Forster		The Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor...	Edward Morgan Forster	James Arthur Balfour	'What Our Fleet Has Done'	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor...	Edward Morgan Forster	Count Ernst von Reventlow	'A Year of Naval Warfare'	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916: 'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t...	Frank Vicary	Dickinson		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916: 'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t...	Frank Vicary	George Bernard Shaw		Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss...	Frank Vicary	Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson	The Meaning of Good	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss...	Frank Vicary	Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson	Letters from John Chinaman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916: 'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner)	'Bombardment'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916: 'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner)	'Rousbrugge'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe...	Edward Morgan Forster		'Missionary magazine'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry James	What Maisie Knew	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Milton		Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Walter Pater	Marius the Epicurean	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki...	Edward Morgan Forster	Robert Bridges, ed.	[possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French from the Philosophers and Poets made by the POet Laureate in 1915 & dedicated by gracious permission to His Majesty the King	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki...	Edward Morgan Forster	Emil Zola		Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow...	Edward Morgan Forster	D. H. Lawrence	The Rainbow	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917: 'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its...	Edward Morgan Forster	Edward Gibbon		Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock...	Edward Morgan Forster		The Feet of the Young Men	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock...	Edward Morgan Forster	Benedict Spinoza	Ethics	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henr...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry James	The Middle Years	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.'	Edward Morgan Forster	Jean Baptiste Racine		Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.'	Edward Morgan Forster	Paul Claudel		Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.'	Edward Morgan Forster	Robert Trevelyan	Translations from Lucretius	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).'	Florence Barger	Edward Carpenter	My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918: 'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscu...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry James	The Sense of the Past	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked...	Edward Morgan Forster	Robert Graves		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked...	Edward Morgan Forster	Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918: 'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Robert Trevelyan		Unknown
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm...	Edward Morgan Forster	Forrest Reid	'Kenneth'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm...	Edward Morgan Forster	Forrest Reid	'The Trial of Witches'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in anoth...	Anne Romilly	[unknown]	[legal briefs]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Or perhaps she [Madame de Stael] may wish to have it appear as if she thought so [that English women were less uncout...	Anne Romilly	Germaine de Stael	Corinne, or Italy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first ar...	Anne Romilly	[unknown]	[letter to Madame de Stael]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n...	Anne Romilly	[unknown]	[novel by a lady novelist]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n...	Anne Romilly	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very ...	Anne Romilly	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the libe...	Anne Romilly	Henri-Benjamin Constant-de Rebecque	[pamphlet on press freedom]
	1800-1849	'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the lib...	Anne Romilly	Gallois	[pamphlet on press freedom]
	1800-1849	'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would ...	Anne Romilly	Maria Edgeworth	[review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would ...	Anne Romilly	[n/a]	Philanthropist, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to...	Anne Romilly	Walter Scott	Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, ...	Anne Romilly	Maria Edgeworth	[title page of a children's book]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition fro...	Anne Romilly	Richard Lovell Edgeworth	[a narrative]	Unknown
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Domenico Comparetti	Vergileo nel Medio Evo	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Paul Bourget	Physiologie de l'Amour Moderne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Alexandre Dumas	Nouveaux Entre'actes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Theodule Ribot	Les Maladies de la Volonte	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Gustave Flaubert	Correspondance	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Charles Arthur Mercier	Sanity and Insanity	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Emile Zola	La Fortune des Rougon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Emile Zola	Son Excellence Eugene Rougon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourgetâ€™s Physiologie de lâ€™Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...	Vernon Lee	Pierre Loti	Le Roman d'un Enfant	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in...	Anne Romilly	Maria Edgeworth	Practical Education	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but t...	Anne Romilly	Albert Jean Michel de Rocca	MÃ©moires sur la guerre des FranÃ§ais en Espagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...	Anne Romilly	[unknown]	Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...	Anne Romilly	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...	Anne Romilly	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...	Anne Romilly	Walter Scott	Lady of the Lake, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...	Anne Romilly	Walter Scott	Marmion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co...	Anne Romilly	Mary Brunton	Discipline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co...	Anne Romilly	Albert Jean Michel de Rocca	MÃ©moires Sur La Guerre Des FranÃ§ais En Espagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co...	Anne Romilly	[unknown]	Eugene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]"....	Anne Romilly	Oliver Goldsmith	Traveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Mr Schlegel's Essays are most certainly worth reading, altho' you will not entirely agree with him in many of his opi...	Anne Romilly	August Wilhelm von Schlegel	[Essays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...	Anne Romilly	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Fare thee well	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...	Anne Romilly	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Sketch from Private Life, A	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...	Anne Romilly	[n/a]	Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Pla...	Anne Romilly	StÃ©phanie FÃ©licitÃ© Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis	[children's plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Pla...	Anne Romilly	Maria Edgeworth	Old Poz	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ...	Anne Romilly	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ...	Anne Romilly	[unknown]	[unidentified novel]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be t...	Anne Romilly	Benjamin Constant	Adolphe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons in...	Anne Romilly	Caroline Lamb	Glenarvon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed...	Anne Romilly	Caroline Lamb	Glenarvon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed...	Anne Romilly		[newspaper extract of Preface to "Glenarvon"]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the su...	Anne Romilly	Jane Haldimand Marcet	Conversations on Political Economy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He...	Anne Romilly	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Manfred	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He...	Anne Romilly	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He...	Anne Romilly	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Darkness	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the A...	Anne Romilly	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of t...	Anne Romilly	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[letters to his wife Harriet]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of t...	Anne Romilly	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his wo...	Anne Romilly	Jeremy Bentham	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have mad...	Anne Romilly	Sydney Morgan	France	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have mad...	Anne Romilly	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	[following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii] 'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defen...	Edward Morgan Forster	Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna...	Edward Morgan Forster	Frances Burney		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna...	Edward Morgan Forster	Tobias Smollett		Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Mol...	Edward Morgan Forster	Daniel Defoe	Moll Flanders	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Percy Lubbock	The Craft of Fiction	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th...	Edward Morgan Forster	George Meredith	Evan Harrington	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (op...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Vanbrugh	The Provok'd Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel...	Edward Morgan Forster	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel...	Edward Morgan Forster	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...] '[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry James	The Ambassadors	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Norman Douglas	D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with r...	Edward Morgan Forster	Herman Melville	Billy Budd	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anyt...	Edward Morgan Forster	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples inclu...	Edward Morgan Forster	Sylvia Townsend Warner	Lolly Willowes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...	Edward Morgan Forster	David Garnett	A Man in the Zoo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...	Edward Morgan Forster	David Garnett	Lady into Fox	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...	Edward Morgan Forster	David Garnett	The Sailor's Return	Unknown
	1900-1945	Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...	Edward Morgan Forster	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertai...	Katherine Hamilton	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a ...	John Douglas	Samuel Johnson	London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'This Epitaph [on 'Philips, a musician'] is so exquisitely beautiful that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejud...	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Samuel Johnson	Epitaph on Philips, a Musician	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[extract of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Dr Birch] I have just now seen the specimen of Mr Johnson's dictionar...	John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery	Samuel Johnson	[Plan or prospectus for his dictionary]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa...	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Samuel Johnson	[letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'I remember when the [italics] Literary Property [end italics] of those letters [Lord Chesterfield's to his son] was c...	Henry Dundas	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Letters to his Son	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics.	Edward Morgan Forster	Aristotle	Poetics	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927): 'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanho...	Edward Morgan Forster	Max Beerbohm	Letter to Lytton Strachey	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of D...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Dryden	Epistles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mo...	Edward Morgan Forster	Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only ...	Edward Morgan Forster	J. B. Priestley	article on E. M. Forster	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E...	Edward Morgan Forster	H. E. Wortham	Oscar Browning	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927: 'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself, I love me,...	Edward Morgan Forster		'I love me' (song lyric)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henrik Ibsen	Peer Gynt	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henrik Ibsen	Peer Gynt	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to fo...	Edward Morgan Forster	E. M. Forster	short stories	Unknown
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran...	Edward Morgan Forster	Francois Mauriac	Le Desert de l'Amour	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran...	Edward Morgan Forster	Francois Mauriac	La Pharisienne	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, at...	Edward Morgan Forster	A. S. Eddington	Stars and Atoms	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life...	Edward Morgan Forster	Thomas Deloney	The Gentle Craft part II	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 N...	Edward Morgan Forster	Horace Walpole	Letter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more p...	Edward Morgan Forster	A. S. Eddington	The Nature of the Physical World	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929): 'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as the...	Edward Morgan Forster	A. N. Whitehead	Science and the Modern World	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewi...	Edward Morgan Forster	Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz	The Kalahari and its Native Races	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become...	Edward Morgan Forster	T. S. Eliot	'Tradition and the Individual Talent'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants...	Edward Morgan Forster	Anton Chekhov	'Uprooted'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry Vaughan	'Quickness'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R...	Edward Morgan Forster	F. L. Lucas	'The Graces'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking a...	Edward Morgan Forster	Cyril Connolly		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit 'runs an epigram of Maurois w...	Edward Morgan Forster	Andre Maurois	Byron	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardy...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Cowper Powys	Wolf Solent	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid. "'The Queen is now aslee...	anon [a cook]		evening paper	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Alfred Tennyson	In Memoriam	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'.	Edward Morgan Forster	Alfred Tennyson	'A Farewell'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. ...	Edward Morgan Forster	A. E. Housman	Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland')	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique...	Edward Morgan Forster	Pierre Corneille	Trois Discours	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Dryden	The Conquest of Granada	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Dryden	An Essay of Heroic Plays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of...	Edward Morgan Forster	Pierre Corneille	Rodogune	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Q...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Dryden	Preface, The Maiden Queen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Johnson	Rasselas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Sa...	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Johnson	Life of [Richard] Savage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli...	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Johnson	Preface to Dictionary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli...	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Johnson	Plan [for Dictionary]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid...	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Johnson	remarks on Othello	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid...	Edward Morgan Forster	Walter Raleigh, ed.	Johnson on Shakespare	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jonathan Swift	The Battle of the Books	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jonathan Swift	A Tale of a Tub	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments...	Edward Morgan Forster	Nicolas Boileau	L'Art Poetique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written e...	Edward Morgan Forster	Dante Alighieri	De Vulgari Eloquentia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s...	Edward Morgan Forster	George Bernard Shaw	Saint Joan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s...	Edward Morgan Forster	James Joyce	Ulysses	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe...	Edward Morgan Forster	J. A. Symonds		Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand.
	1900-1945	[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe...	Edward Morgan Forster	J. A. Symonds		Unknown
	1900-1945	Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henry James	The Letters of Henry James (vol.I)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they m...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Aubrey	The Scandal and Credulities of John Aubrey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Voltaire	Des Singularites de la Nature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical In...	Edward Morgan Forster	Charles F. Richardson	'Critical Introduction'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric': 'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[...	Edward Morgan Forster	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the additi...	Jane Austen	Edward Cooper	Two Sermons Preached at Wolverhampton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w...	Jane Austen	Henry Austen	Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w...	Jane Austen	Walter Scott	The Antiquary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shi...	Jane Austen	Caroline Austen	unpublished manuscript story	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all ...	Jane Austen	Robert Southey	Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns...	George III of England	[unknown]	[Lowth-Warburton controversy]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My dearest Fanny, You are inimitable, irresistable. You are the delight of my Life. Such Letters, such entertaining L...	Jane Austen	Fanny Knight	Letters	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question ...	Reverend Christian	Kenneth Macaulay	History of St Kilda	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...	Alexander Pope	Samuel Johnson	London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Indu Rakshit		Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII B...	Edward Morgan Forster	Voltaire	Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Christopher Isherwood	Mr Norris Changes Trains	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi.	Edward Morgan Forster	Herman Melville	Mardi	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Herman Melville	Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, ope...	Edward Morgan Forster	Norman Douglas	Together	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read...	Edward Morgan Forster	Sophocles	Oedipus Tyrannus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "...	Edward Morgan Forster	Thomas Malory	Le Morte D'Arthur	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii: 'And they answered the Ang...	Edward Morgan Forster		Book of Zechariah	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henrik Ibsen	passages from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garde...	Edward Morgan Forster	Abraham Cowley	Essay no. 5 ('The Garden')	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's ...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Bunyan	The Life and Death of Mr Badman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both dev...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jean de la Bruyere	'Du Coeur'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of J...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Bunyan	The Life and Death of Mr Badman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literatu...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jean Freville, trans. and ed.	Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at M...	Edward Morgan Forster	Adolf Hitler	address on national art	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Be...	Edward Morgan Forster	V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin	(excerpted) writings on literature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins a...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five Britis...	Edward Morgan Forster	General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson	History of the British Expedition to Egypt	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss...	Edward Morgan Forster	William Gifford	Memoir of Ben Jonson	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Gifford	Memoir of Ben Jonson	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think...	Edward Morgan Forster	Benjamin Farington	Science and Politics in the Ancient World	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think...	Edward Morgan Forster	F. M. Cornford	From Religion to Philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messi...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Newton	Sermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple')	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addres...	Edward Morgan Forster	Alexander Pope	The Dunciad (books I and II)	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or...	Edward Morgan Forster	Arthur Hugh Clough	Dipsychus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton	A Lecture on the Study of History	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g...	Edward Morgan Forster	William Wordsworth	The Prelude	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g...	Edward Morgan Forster	William Wordsworth	'Sonnet on Napoleon'	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1900-1945	Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame...	Edward Morgan Forster	Madame de Sevigne	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include repor...	Edward Morgan Forster	R. W. Ketton-Cremer	Horace Walpole: A Biography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in...	Edward Morgan Forster	Voltaire	Zaide	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an o...	Edward Morgan Forster	Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery': '"Nor shall your p...	Edward Morgan Forster	William Wordsworth	Sonnets of the Imagination XLII	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in ch...	Edward Morgan Forster	George Eliot	Silas Marner	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Francois de Malherbe	'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant ch...	Edward Morgan Forster	Francois de Malherbe	'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, beca...	Edward Morgan Forster	Gerald Heard	The Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Disappointment of God. 'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disap...	Edward Morgan Forster		'The Disappointment of God'	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The se...	Edward Morgan Forster	Elizabeth Gaskell	Sylvia's Lovers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wis...	Edward Morgan Forster	H. A. L. Fisher	A History of Europe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with fi...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Ruskin	'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England')	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont...	Edward Morgan Forster	Paul-Louis Courier	'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de Danser' (1822)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Paul Valery		Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' imposi...	Edward Morgan Forster	St Augustine	De Civitate Dei	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugee...	Edward Morgan Forster	Thomas Hodgkin	Italy and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugee...	Edward Morgan Forster	Virgil	Aeneid (Book II)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940: 'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last nig...	Edward Morgan Forster	George Eliot	Middlemarch	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine] 'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Aug...	Edward Morgan Forster	W. E. H. Lecky	History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'St Augustine, Some scattered notes. 'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on t...	Edward Morgan Forster	St Augustine	'On Marriage and Concupiscence'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.'	Edward Morgan Forster	Michaud	article on Pelagius	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of th...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Neville Figgis	The Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of God	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb...	Edward Morgan Forster	St Jerome	Select Letters of St Jerome	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'St Basil (329-379) [...] is a Father easily disposed of, and a glance at the second volume of letters in Loeb shall s...	Edward Morgan Forster	St Basil	Letters (vol.II)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A Hi...	Edward Morgan Forster	F. A. Wright	A History of Later Greek Literature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and with...	Edward Morgan Forster	Socrates of Constantinople	Ecclesiastical History	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried ou...	Edward Morgan Forster	E. H. Carr	Michael Bakunin	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust,...	Edward Morgan Forster	Marcel Proust	Le Temps Retrouve	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust...	Edward Morgan Forster	Marcel Proust	Du Cote de chez Swann	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's...	Edward Morgan Forster	Charles Darwin	The Voyage of the Beagle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards...	Edward Morgan Forster	A. P. Wavell	Allenby: Soldier and Statesman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jean Bruller	Le Silence de la Mer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...	Edward Morgan Forster	Jean Giono	'Prelude de Pan'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...	Edward Morgan Forster	Honore de Balzac	Illusions perdues	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...	Edward Morgan Forster	Andre Gide	Journal	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re...	Edward Morgan Forster	Stefan George	'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re...	Edward Morgan Forster	Charles Baudelaire	'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle')	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering m...	Edward Morgan Forster	Van Wyck Brooks	The Ordeal of Mark Twain	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student] E. M. Forster transcribes passage op...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton	A Lecture on the Study of History	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the ke...	Edward Morgan Forster	Arnold Toynbee	A Study of History (vol I)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944): 'On Hydon's top there is a cup And in that cup there ...	Edward Morgan Forster		A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Bede	Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ...	Edward Morgan Forster	Henri-Frederic Amiel	Fragments d'un Journal Intime	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wander...	Edward Morgan Forster	Charles Waterton	Wanderings in South America	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discover...	Edward Morgan Forster	Samuel Henley	Appendix no. 2	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Ruskin	Introduction to Notes on Turner drawings	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Janet Fraser . . . had gone out to the fields with a young female companion, and sat down to read the Bible . . . [Go...	Janet Fraser		Bible - Book of Isaiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833: 'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time,...	The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Wilhelm Meister	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr W...	James and Mary Lackington	John Whitehead	The Life of the Rev John Wesley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Edmund Lushington writes] 'At Xmas 1841 I went for a few days' holiday from Glasgow to Kent and spent the time mos...	Edmund Lushington	Alfred Tennyson	'In Memoriam' verses	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam: 'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not...	Henry Hallam	Alfred Tennyson	In Memoriam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 17 November 1852: 'I have read your ode ("Death of the Duke of Wellington") [...] ...	Henry Taylor	Alfred Tennyson	Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Gray	[Odes]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Boswell	Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Vol 7 On the Griphi and Impromptus (quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small...	Frances Hamilton	Abbot Barthelemu	Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A book I have a high opinion of'	Frances Hamilton	Dugald Stewart	Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan. N.B. a rebellious book.'	Frances Hamilton	D O'Bryan	The Government of the Country	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".â€” "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall...	Bennet Langton	James Grainger	Sugar Cane, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Flatman	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	'Dying Christian to his Soul, The'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop...	John Wilkes	Horace	Ars poetica	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop...	John Wilkes	James Boswell	[notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johnson]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey...	James Burnett, Lord Monboddo	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th...	Alexander Dick	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th...	Alexander Dick	James Boswell	An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island, & Memoirs of Pascal Paoli	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is...	Edmund Burke	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me...	Andrew Erskine	William Hamilton	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh...	John Taylor	John Taylor	[sermon]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to...	John Taylor	John Wilmot, Lord Rochester	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason...	Jonathan Shipley	Horace		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']â€” no one of Dryden's careless verses....	Bennet Langton	Oliver Goldsmith	Traveller, The	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele...	Bennet Langton	Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari: '"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, on...	anon	Alfred Tennyson	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ...	anon		texts used in teaching self to read	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 31 July 1855: 'I thank you much for sending me "Maud." I have only read it twice, ...	Henry Taylor	Alfred Tennyson	Maud	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow...	Susan Owen		[light novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow...	Susan Owen	John Oxenham [pseud.]	[light novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli	Torquato Tasso	Gerusalemme Liberata	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli	Thucydides	History of the Peloponnesian War,	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli	Homer		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accep...	Benjamin Jowett	Hegel	Philosophy of History	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accep...	Benjamin Jowett	Bunsen	work on Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	George Gordon Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	Edward Young		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	Cowper		Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Alfred Tennyson	Guinevere	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Alfred Tennyson	The Maid of Astolat	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with ...	Benjamin Jowett	Alfred Tennyson	The Maid of Astolat	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with ...	Benjamin Jowett	Alfred Tennyson	The Lily Maid	Print: Book
	1850-1899	H. R. H. Prince Albert to Alfred Tennyson, 17 May 1860: 'Will you forgive me if I intrude upon your leisure with a ...	Prince Albert	Alfred Tennyson	Idylls of the King	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Jan. 19th. [1862] Princess Alice wrote to my father about the Dedication of the "Idylls" to [her father] the Prince C...	Queen Victoria	Alfred Tennyson	Dedication, Idylls of the King	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Crown Princess of Prussia to Alfred Tennyson, 23 February 1862: 'The first time I ever heard the "Idylls of the...	Prince Albert	Alfred Tennyson	Guinevere	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyl, 3 March 1862: 'Your letter a little dismayed me, for, as you in the prior one...	Queen Victoria	Alfred Tennyson	In Memoriam	Print: Book
		'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like...	Allan Ramsay	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
		'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like...	Allan Ramsay		[books of Job and Ruth]	Print: Book
		'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca...	Catherine II of Russia	Joshua Reynolds	Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of ...	anon	Alfred Tennyson	Enoch Arden	Print: Book
	1850-1899	W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer': '[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where...	anon	Alfred Tennyson	The Northern Farmer	Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.'
		'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR S...	Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst	Alexander Pope	Essay on Man	Print: Book
		'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR S...	Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst	Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke	[alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literatur...	Bennet Langton	Clenardus	Greek Grammar	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley...	Bennet Langton	Robert Dodsley	Cleone, a Tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction ...	Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti	Mr Grove	[articled in 'The Spectator']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of...	Edmund Burke	Herbert Croft	Life of Young	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A clergyman at Bath wrote to him, that in "The Morning Chronicle", a passage in "The Beauties of Johnson" [unauthoris...	Lancelot St Albyn	Samuel Johnson	[excerpt from a work, reprinted in the Bath 'Morning Chronicle']	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Torquato Tasso	Aminta	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by ...	Richard Owen Cambridge	Sallust		Print: Book
	1700-1799	Early childhood reminisences: 'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her...	Catherine Gurney	[n/a]	Scriptures	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Early childhood reminisences: 'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her...	Catherine Gurney	[n/a]	Psalms	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'	Priscilla Hannah Gurney	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre...	Hannah More	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre...	Hannah More	John Milton	[Sonnets]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its...	John Gurney	[unknown]	[unknown, probably religious, Bible?]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some atte...	John Hoole		the Litany	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte...	John Betjeman	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	'Ulysses'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte...	John Betjeman	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	'Morte d'Arthur'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.	John Betjeman	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.	John Betjeman	Edgar Allan Poe		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.	John Betjeman	Thomas Campbell		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'John was not only reading and quoting Lord Alfred Douglas at Marlborough. Ernest Betjeman [his father] was scandalize...	John Betjeman	Alfred Douglas		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo...	John Betjeman	Ebeneezer Elliott		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo...	John Betjeman	Henry Taylor		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo...	John Betjeman	Philip James Bailey		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo...	John Betjeman	Lewis Morris		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jean Jacques Rousseau	La Nouvelle Heloise	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'My Father had made me translate the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Don Quixote from the Spanish by way of exercise whe...	Hester Lynch Salusbury		Life of Cervantes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'With regard to little French Epitaphs I have always had an Itch to translate them, & some times have fancied that I c...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[French epitaphs]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce...	Hester Lynch Salusbury	Dr Parker	'To Miss Salusbury'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce...	Hester Lynch Thrale		Greek Anthology	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Dominique Bouhours	La maniÃ¨re de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Anon.	ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted Soldier	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Laurence Sterne	ife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Robert Dodsley	Collection of Poems by Various Hands	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Dryden	Miscellanies	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Boethius	Consolation of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Francis Beaumont	Bonduca	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Francis Beaumont	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I must let off a little steam. I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkhamâ€™s cheek in publishing our letters. I...	Cornelia Sorabji	Kirkham (ed.)	Reminiscences of Tennyson extracted from Cornelia's letters home	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. â€œByron is nice tooâ€ she added â€œEspeci...	Cornelia Sorabji	Walter Scott	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. â€œByron is nice tooâ€ she added â€œEspeci...	Cornelia Sorabji	Austin Dobson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The other day some people from â€œThe Gentlewomanâ€ came to interview me and wished to put an account if me into the...	Cornelia Sorabji		The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale gives the Spanish quotation] "Quien la ve no la e; quien no la ve, la ve". I think the Jeu de Mots in t...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[a Spanish play]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Marriott wrote the prettiest Verses in French of any Englishman I know'.[she then gives lengthy examples]	Hester Lynch Thrale	Dr Marriott	[French poems]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purpo...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Addison	Cato	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Lord Corke	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Here is an odd Book come out to prove Falstaff was no Coward, when says Dr Johnson will one come forth to prove Iago ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Maurice Morgan	Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Baretti used to read here with vast Avidity - do you remember all you read said I one day - Scarce a word replyed Bar...	Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Mr Pepys	[verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Gilles Menage	Menagiana	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Wooton	'Ye meaner beauties of the night'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s...	Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti	Henry Wooton	'Ye meaner beauties of the night'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Hester Lynch Salusbury	'Irregular Ode on the English Poets'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over t...	John Salusbury	Hester Lynch Salusbury	'Irregular Ode on the English Poets'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinar...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Sarah Fielding	'To Miss Salusbury'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'he [Mr Hale] was a clever man enough too, valued himself on his Literature, and made some pretty verses. as for Examp...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Hale	[translation of one of Martial's 'Epigrams']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I heard an odd Anecdote to Day of Fordyce the Dissenter, who wrote a few pretty little Essays lately call'd Sermons t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Fordyce	Sermons to Young Women	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apolloni...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'.	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountab...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and line...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that w...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that ...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the ...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clan...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?'	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excludi...	John Keats	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I used to like following Verses vastly upon Garrick and Barry's playing King Lear a l'envie till I heard from good au...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[verses on Garrick's Lear]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Giuseppe Pecio	[sonnet to Voltaire]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'I saw there [at Hampton] likewise a sweet pretty little Copy of Verses from a Gentleman to his Wife on the Subject of...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[verses to a wife, about a penknife]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'he [Herbert Lawrence] wrote some pretty Verses and said some clever Things and I have a Loss of his Acquaintance. The...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Herbert Lawrence	[poems]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Gray	[Odes]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Ode to Indifference is a most superior Piece of elegant Writing The Occasion of it was however dreadfully unhappy...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Frances Greville	Ode to Indifference	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Cumberland	[Odes]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In a Conversation the King of Prussia had once with Marshal Keith the latter quoted Scripture: why Keith have you bee...	James Francis Edward Keith		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Ben Jonson	Every Man in his Humour	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems m...	Winifred Holtby		Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Peep Behind the Scenes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinb...	Winifred Holtby	Algernon Charles Swinburne	Super Flumina Babylonis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes o...	Winifred Holtby	Thomas Hobbes	The Leviathan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and st...	Winifred Holtby	Walter Raleigh	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Disc...	Winifred Holtby	William Shakespeare	Richard II	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'one Day in the Year 1768 I saw some Verses with his name in a Magazine these are they [the poem follows] I thought th...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[verses printed in the Gentleman's Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham	Rehearsal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Young		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'As my Peace has never been disturbed by the [italics] soft Passion [end italics], so it seldom comes into my head to ...	Hester Lynch Thrale		Huetania	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Churchill	Prophecy of Famine, a Scots Pastoral	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Churchill	Ghost, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - reve...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart., to Alfred Tennyson, 20 August 1875: 'As a great admirer of your genius, I eagerly rea...	Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart.	Alfred Tennyson	Queen Mary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Dr Burney] could write admirable Verses had he Leisure and Inclination so to do. He has shewn me in Confidence a lit...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	[verses modelled on 'The Dunciad']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -...	Susan Thrale		[a story book]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -...	Susan Thrale	James Beattie	Essays on Poetry and Music	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Jones	[MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'it was but last Week I read a new [sic] York Advertisement of Perfumery for the Ladies, Anodyne Necklaces for Teethin...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[a New York newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in th...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Grainger	'Solitude: An Ode'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Tobias Smollett		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Fielding		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Richardson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon	Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Daniel Defoe	Journal of the Plague Year	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Arthur Murphy	Grecian Daughter, the: A tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Irene: A Historical Tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Addison	Cato	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Lillo	London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Jones	Earl of Essex, The, a tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Darrell	Gentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Dr Parker] shewed me a little Poem written to himself by an old Clergyman of sixty nine Years old just upon the Acce...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[verses written to Dr Parker by a clergyman]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send...	Hester Lynch Salusbury	John Milton		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immed...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Parnell		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Hawkesworth	Rival, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Hawkesworth	[Ode on life]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Hawkesworth	Amurath	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Hawkesworth	Adventurer, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Richardson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Tobias Smollett	Ferdinand Count Fathom	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charlotte Lennox	Female Quixote, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Fielding	Joseph Andrews	Print: Book
		'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
		'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Gilles Menage	Menagiana	Print: Book
		'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough,...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	[verses on death]	Manuscript: Unknown
		'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Year...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Sketches of the History of Man	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Oliver Goldsmith	History of the Earth and Animated Nature	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Thomson	Seasons, The - 'Spring'	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Thomson	Seasons, The - 'Summer'	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Irene: A Historical Tragedy	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Histoire Naturelle	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Pennant	History of Quadrupeds.	Print: Book
		'[Having given her verses 'A Tale for the Times'] This wild irregular Measure is a sort of Favourite with me, I learnt...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Vanbrugh	Esop; a comedy	Print: Book
		'I could not help thinking the other Day as I read the Epigram of Martial ending thus Iam dic Posthume de tribus Ca...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Martial	Epigrams	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Young	Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift	The Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea Project	Print: Serial / periodical
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Southern	Fatal marriage, The; or, the innocent adultery	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Lillo	Fatal Curiosity: A True Tragedy of Three Acts	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Vanbrugh	Provoked Husband, The	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Congreve	Old Batchelor, The	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Addison	Cato	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Irene: a Historical Tragedy	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Congreve	Mourning Bride, The	Print: Book
		'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha...	Hester Lynch Thrale		'Love Letter from Captain Roach to Mrs Rudd'	Manuscript: Unknown
		'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Mason	'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers'	Print: Unknown
		'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	Moliere [pseud.]	Le Bourgeois gentilhomme	Print: Book
		'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	John Dryden	Song for St. Cecilia's Day	Print: Book
		'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	Alexander Pope	Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan.15th. [1889] My father asked Jowett whether his faith...	Benjamin Jowett	Plato	Thaetetus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'During our cruise [on The Sunbeam, Lord Brassey's yacht] ...	Henry Hallam	Thomas Carlyle	The French Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Tennyson's notes on Demeter and Other Poems: 'A lady tells me that when she read "The Northern Cobbler" at a v...	anon	Alfred Tennyson	The Northern Cobbler	Print: Book
	1850-1899	John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson: 'On Monday the 10th [October, 1892], Miss Marryat, daughter of the celebrated nove...	John Tyndall	Dr Dabbs	account of death of Alfred Tennyson	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'Under the date of Sunday, 20th October, 1850, I find the following [journa...	John Tyndall	Alfred Tennyson	Poems including 'The Two Voices'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began...	John Tyndall	Thomas Carlyle	Past and Present	Print: Book
	1850-1899	John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of...	John Tyndall	Alfred Tennyson	Maud	Print: Book
	1850-1899	John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of...	John Tyndall	Alfred Tennyson	Maud	Print: Book
	1850-1899	John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'In the year 1885 [...] were published Tiresias, and Other Poems, by Alfred...	John Tyndall	Alfred Tennyson	Tiresias and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breer...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edmund Spenser	Shepheardes Calendar, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Grainger	[unknown poem praising Young]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavourin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire	The Sylph: a Novel	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpon...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Ben Jonson	Volpone	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have this Moment put into my Hand a Poem concerning the Geranium Flower; tis not very long, and tis I think exceedi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Andrew Erskine	[a poem on a Geranium]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I had an Uncle Cornelius Ford my Mother's Brother continued he [Johnson] who on a Journey stopt to read an Inscriptio...	Cornelius Ford		[an inscription]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit...	Frances Burney	Frances Burney	The Witlings	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Burnet	Telluris Theoria Sacra	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Whiston	Astronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great Year MDCCXXXVI. Particularly of the Late Comet, Which was foretold by Sir Isaac Newton	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale proposes writing a comedy, but] as I have not a Spark of Originality about me, I must take a French Model...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Philippe Nericault Destouches	L'Homme Singulier	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Qua...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[ladies memorandum books]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & e...	Hester Lynch Thrale			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner of Potter]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Aeschylus		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest Englis...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	[translation of a provencale ballad]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Law	Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'2 February 1780.] Here is Dr Pepys come with a Manuscript of Dr Spence's for Johnson's Use & Inspection now he is wri...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Lord Bolingbroke said he learned Spanish so as to read & write Letters in it with only three Weeks Application, - Bar...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'When I read the Character of Cambray in this Collection, I could not keep from falling on my Knees to give God thanks...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The two Stories of Marlboro's Avarice are very capital: Sr Godfrey's Dream is [a] good Thing too - they are all too l...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Spence	[Anecdotes]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ...	Hester Lynch Thrale			Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stopped at home during the evening. Butler paid me a visit & read one or two capital speeches from Phillip's life of ...	John Buckley Castieau	W.H. Curran	Life of J.P. Curran	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ...	Alexander Pope			Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stopped at home & read "The Newcomers" until nearly mid-night.'	John Buckley Castieau	William Makepeace Thackeray	The Newcomers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the w...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blackwood's	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Of all the People I ever heard read Verse in my whole Life the best, the most perfect reader is the Bishop of Peterbo...	John Hinchcliffe		[poetry]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Eloisa to Abelard	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	Comus: A Masque	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Matthew Prior	Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read at home in the evening till nearly eleven Then went down the Street.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Dryden	'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Essay on Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Abraham Cowley	Life and Fame	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Dined at Hall's. Came home & Read until I went to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to bed at ten o clock. Got up in the night & Read could not sleep.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Spent the evening at Home. Read portion of Waverley.'	John Buckley Castieau	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Went for a little walk with Polly in the evening. Read & then went to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read in the morning.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Was at home in the evening. Read a Portion of Rob Roy to Polly.'	John Buckley Castieau	Walter Scott	Rob Roy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Rob Roy in the evening.'	John Buckley Castieau	Walter Scott	Rob Roy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stopped at Home in the evening and read Rob Roy to Polly.'	John Buckley Castieau	Walter Scott	Rob Roy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' Read at home during the evening.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read at home in the evening.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read the paper at Hutchinson's in the afternoon.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I was busy with prison business till past nine o clock, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home had...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by "a woman" "on women" in the Broadway Maga...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Broadway Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown- newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. Th...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown- periodicals]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening went for a walk with Polly, called at the Mechanics & got some periodicals, took a turn through the Ea...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the Evening paper, not much news.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went into town & read the papers, there was very little new & the town seemed quiet Bourke Street bein...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'A leading article appeared in the Argus of this morning lauding the management of Dunedin Gaol & calling attention to...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went in the evening to the Mechanics & read the papers, or rather tried to do so. The Church Assembly was sitting in ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the Herald.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the papers, the Philarmonic (sic) people were practising so ready ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'My letter appeared in the Argus this morning & created quite a flutter.' [letter to the editor in response to the art...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the Argus of this morning a Leading Article appeared in which "my taking an erroneous view of the meaning of a pre...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went down to the Mechanics Institute this evening, the Library was shut up, found however all the English periodicals...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[English periodicals]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went into town in the evening & read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went into town in the evening saw by the Ovens Paper of Thursday that Mrs Zincke gave birth to a little girl on the 2...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	' In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Evening Paper.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went into town in the evening & read the papers, on my return the girls were very jolly.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned had some beer & went to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'After tea I went for a walk, a very quiet stroll indeed, did not meet a soul I knew & did not open my mouth to speak....	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went into town in the evening to the Mechanics read the papers came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home after a stroll in Bourke Street'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Was at the Mechanics to-day went especially to see the Ovens & Murray & whether my "Copy" had been used, it did not a...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read the Australasian & lounged upon the sofa after dinner till muster time.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Received two copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. Glennonâ€™s advertisement offering Â£25 Reward for the discove...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Mechanics read in the Ovens & Murray a skit I had written some week or more since on â€œT...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, nothing particular.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'An answer to the letter I wrote to the Argus about Dunedin Gaol appeared to-day in the Argus signed â€œRobert Stoutâ€...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'My letter in reply to Mr Stout appeared in the Argus.' [composed previous day]	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Punch very fair & should improve now its competitors have be...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned home had a smoke & then went off to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, turning the Country ones over nervously for fear of finding...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Mechanics read the papers & then spent some time in searching among different periodical...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'after dinner we parted I had a look at the papers at the Mechanics & then came home.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Critic, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	School for Scandal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Colman	Clandestine Marriage, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the Poets	Print: proof sheets
	1700-1799	'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Matthew Prior	Alma	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Nicholas Rowe	Fair Penitent, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Philip Massinger	Fatal Dowry, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in A...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Rape of the Lock, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Dunciad, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux	[a sonnet]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Walter Pope	Old Mans Wish, The	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Lillo	Elmerick; Or Justice Triumphant	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil...	Hester Lynch Thrale		ChevrÃ¦ana, ou Diverses PensÃ©es	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given]	Hester Lynch Thrale	Anacreon	Anacreon to himself	Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was shewed a curious Thing today - a Letter written by Lord Strafford to his Daughter three Weeks before his Execut...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Lord Strafford	[letter to his daughter, 1641]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the Wor...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Fulke Greville	Maxims, Characters, and Reflections	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how h...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	[translation of a French Chanson]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Fo...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Psalmanazar	[articles contributed to the 'Universal History']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's sev...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Joseph Sorbiere	Sorberiana	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses,...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	[MS of his translations of Homer]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	Vincent de Voiture	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Johnson believes nothing - the Hurricane which has torn Barbadoes to pieces, & is related so pathetically in the G...	Hester Lynch Thrale		Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[prose works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Addison	[prose works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Dunciad, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Young	Love of Fame, The Universal Passion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Abraham Cowley		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jean de La Bruyere		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In evening I went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics, nothing yet done about the formation of a new Ministr...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	' In Bourke Street I met Joe White & we commenced as usual chatting on different subjects. I asked what sort of a pla...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'after tea went to the Mechanics & read the papers then came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I did not go out again but passed the time away in reading, amused the youngsters with some stories from Grimms Gobli...	John Buckley Castieau	Brothers Grimm	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The rest of the day I was mostly reading or playing with the children.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. McCulloch is forming a Ministry & asked the House to give hi...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. The Ministry not yet formed & the House adjourned till to-mo...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone"...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone"...	John Buckley Castieau	Brothers Grimm	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	' Went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Came home & bought the Extraordinary there was very little in it in fact no item that was to me of any importance at ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Extraordinary	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'A fine day. In the Gaol this morning a number of letters were found which were thrown over the wall for a prisoner w...	John Buckley Castieau	[convict]	[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'After Tea I went into town & spent an hour at the Mechanics saw some of the English Comic Journals the other magazine...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[English comic periodicals]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	Brothers Grimm	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers for an hour or two'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	Brothers Grimm	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	After reading "Living Alone" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation. When no answer arrived she conc...	Winifred Holtby	Stella Benson	Living Alone	Unknown
	1900-1945	'"I read "The Runners" last week," he continued, and told her that he had advised John Lane to refuse it.'	John Priestley	Winifred Holtby	The Runners	Manuscript: Manuscript of an unpublished novel.
	1900-1945	'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early ninet...	Winifred Holtby	Joseph Conrad	Suspense	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read...	John Buckley Castieau	Brothers Grimm	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics... & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, then returned home had some more gin & water & went to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should h...	Winifred Holtby	George Moore	Heloise and Abelard	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in t...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Touchstone	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'By the Argus of this morning I saw that Mr Wintle died last evening.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers nothing very particular in them.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Ovens & Murray, saw that Evan Evans Louisa Wintleâ€™s husband had p...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers home by nine o clock'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had g...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had g...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blackwood's	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[fairy tales?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers in the afternoon'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "B...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	''In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - comic periodicals]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remembe...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remembe...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Illustrated [?]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster I went into town to the Mechanics & read the Papers, saw that the verdict against Draper had been upheld...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea did Harry's sums & then went to the Mechanics a second time skimmed the Weeklys'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers between muster & Tea time.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'after tea I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers then took a stroll & came home.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'A great sensation in the Herald of this evening. In a fit of jealousy, a Mr Cook shot a Mrs Moss through the heart & ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall...	Francis Turner Palgrave	Alfred Tennyson	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall...	Francis Turner Palgrave	Alfred Tennyson	The Princess	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When one reads in Fenelon's last Letter to the Kings Confessor "Quand j'aurai l'honneur de voir Dieu, je lui demander...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Francois Fenelon	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Burney has permitted me to write out this Imitation of an old French Tale written in the Year 1548. he has alw...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	'St Peter and the Minstrel, a Tale'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Congreve	Way of the World, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard El...	Giovanni Povoleri	Giovanni Povoleri	[translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course:...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Marco Capello	[sonnet about Piozzi]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising up...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Odell	[verses on Franklin's stove]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was however turning over Horace yesterday to look for the Expression [italics] tenui fronte [end italics] in Vindic...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Horace	'8th Ode'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Giovanni Povoleri	[a sonnet on love and friendship]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Abbate Buondelmonte	[a sonnet]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Mrs John Hunter, Wife to the famous Anatomist has made a Base to the Tune [reputed to be North American Indian]; & se...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Anne Hunter	'North American Death Song'	Unknown
	1700-1799	'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa Who...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Dominique Bouhours	La maniere de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit. Dialogues.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa Who...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift	'Cadenus and Vanessa'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Bell's Elocutionist	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read the papers at the Mechanics in the evening & brought home a book'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw by the Herald Mr McMullen of Wangaratta died from the effects of a fall f...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Stayed at Home all the evening reading â€œThe Giraffe Huntersâ€.'	John Buckley Castieau	Mayne Reid	The Giraffe Hunters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished â€œThe Giraffe Hunters...	John Buckley Castieau	Mayne Reid	The Giraffe Hunters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished â€œThe Giraffe Hunters...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Pastorals	Manuscript: book
	1700-1799	'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	'Third pastoral'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Virgil	'Second Eclogue'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Two days ago somebody shew'd me a Song written by the Duchess of Devonshire which began thus Boy! bring my Flow'rs...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire	[a Song]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Fanny Burney's] new Novel called "Cecilia" is the Picture of Life such as the Author sees it: while therefore this M...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Frances Burney	Cecilia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its In...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Eloisa to Abelard	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st...	John Buckley Castieau	Brothers Grimm	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Robert Burton	Anatomy of Melancholy, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	'L'Allegro'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	'Il Penseroso'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Savage	Wanderer, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Harrison	'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[a story]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Shakespeare	Taming of the Shrew, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The English Mail was telegraphed to day nothing very important in the Telegram published by the Argus'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw in the Ovens & Murray that Kerferd in his letter stated every one connect...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Melbourne Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'After Muster went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	' In the Australasian of yesterday "The Peripatetic" announced his last article having as he said sold his office of F...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Melbourne Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of "Touchstone". There's nothing in it.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Touchstone	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald then came back & stayed at home the whole of the evening'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. Mr Gordon a well known sporting man & a poet of some pretens...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I mustered at four o clock & after tea went into town & read the Evening Herald, with the exception of an Attempt at ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went to the Mechanics, nothing of much importance or interest in the Evening Herald'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster although it was raining & the weather was exceedingly unpleasant I went into town & read the papers at t...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster this afternoon I went into town & read the evening paper, Nothing particular in it, the newspaper boys w...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Received newspaper from Beechworth nothing much except that Sixpenny nobblers are now general in the township.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Came home read a story in Temple Bar, drank my grog smoked my pipe & went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Temple Bar	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald which was eagerly sought after for further intelligence concer...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening after Muster I went into Melbourne & read the papers. The English ones were on the table. Got home bef...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'This evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Last night at Hotham a woman was beaten to death my her husband. The woman it seems was addicted to drink & the man ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Su...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Su...	John Buckley Castieau	club members	The Suggestion Book	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & skimmed the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster went to the Yorick Club & peeped at the papers came home to dinner'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went to "the Mechanics" & when I returned I amused myself with reciting & reading aloud'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Got some Beechworth Papers, great Leading Article regarding the dismissal of Stewart & the Turnkeys.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. Th...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - comic periodicals]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening paper. There was nothing however particular in it.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read the Australasian, till Mr Wyburn & Miss Morphy put in an appearance'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Was shocked to see by the Argus this morning that Mr Farie was dangerously ill & on enquiring at the office I found i...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick Club this afternoon or rather evening stayed there & read a Review in Blackwood on [Lothair?] it w...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'went to the Yorick Club & read for a time'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'called at the Yorick Club, read the papers, very little new in any of them'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'went to the Yorick Club & had another look at the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the office this morning nothing new excepting that the Argus speaks of "Earl" as Second favourite for the Met...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the wh...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'After muster this afternoon I went to the Yorick Club & read some of the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went after muster to the Yorick. In the Herald of this evening "Castieau" was mentioned among the passengers in a Ste...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleas...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleas...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster went into Melbourne & called at "the Yorick", had a look at Punch, there was a portrait of Dr Paley not ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by "Yates", then smoking & thinking fo...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The "Argus" of this morning was very interesting & it seems the more one think (sic) about the war the more astoundin...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Standard	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the Herald this evening there was a paragraph stating that thre of the Associates were dismissed & giving the name...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'At the Mechanics to day saw a paragraph about Harry's accident in the Ovens Murray Observer'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers. In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Soli...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ...	John Buckley Castieau	Benjamin Disraeli	Lothair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'went to the "Yorick" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860): 'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I ...	John Ruskin	Alfred Tennyson	Idylls of the King	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Benjamin Jowett to Emily Tennyson, May 1868: 'I am glad that Alfred is thinking of Hildebrand. I remember a long ti...	Benjamin Jowett	Bowden	Life of Hildebrand	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	All the Year Round	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ...	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Edwin Drood	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ...	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Edwin Drood	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'then went to the Mechanics, read the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last which contained a Supplement with a first rate c...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'then went to "the Yorick" where I met Kane with whom I chatted for some time about "Supple" read the papers then came...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which w...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[placard]	Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
	1850-1899	'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which w...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Extraordinary (Argus)	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After muster I went into town & spent a couple of hours at the Yorick reading "The Home News" particularly interestin...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Home News	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read a great deal of the War news & was truly disgusted at the horrible things that have been enacted'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English...	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Edwin Drood	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick Club in the afternoon & read for some time'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'then went to the Yorick where I stayed for a short time & had a look at the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Account in the papers of great floods at Ballaarat & other places, at Coleraine nine persons are said to have been dr...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went into Melbourne in the evening, took a book to the Mechanics & read for a time at the Yorick'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Mechanics changed some Periodicals, then went over to the Yorick & read for a time	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed a book, then went over to the Yorick did not stay long, looked through...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Yorick, read for a time then took a walk up Bourke Street'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick club this afternoon & read the Extraordinary the Mail having been Telegraphed to-day. Paris was a...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Extraordinary (Argus)	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to "The Yorick" & read the English Punches'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'went to the Mechanics & turned over some of the "funny" periodicals'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - comic periodicals]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'then went to the Yorick where I stayed & read an article in Blackwood'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or oppos...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[Roman history]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Came home sat down to read & did so for some time, then I went in for smoking & for gin & water'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I went into town this morning & read the Argus at the Yorick Club'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'then to the Yorick at the latter place had a chat with Semple & Eville & a look at Punch'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went into Melbourne after tea & changed a book at the Mechanics, then came home, read a novel for some time smoked a ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the "Yorick" & read Punch & some of the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'After tea I went for a stroll & looked in at the Yorick Club, read some of the papers & Touchstone the last paper cam...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Touchstone	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryboroug...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryboroug...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Yorick & had a look at Punch & the Papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	' I passed the morning reading the Australasian'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went into Melbourne in the morning & had a look at the Argus at the Yorick'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'then read the papers at "The Yorick"'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the articl...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I went to the Club in the evening & read the papers for some time, then took a stroll & returned home'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through "The Leader"...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Leader	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Some excitement as the English mail was expected & in the morning a report was spread that she had been [telegraphed?...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick & read the English [papers?] or rather looked at the Pictures in them'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Called at the Yorick & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I was sitting between one & two o'clock quietly enjoying a chapter in "Vanity Fair" when there was a bustling noise [...	John Buckley Castieau	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea went into Melbourne & read the papers at the Yorick'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, then after a look at Punch came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have been reading "Vanity Fair" again & found it even more enjoyable than when I read it for the first time. I real...	John Buckley Castieau	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'	John Buckley Castieau	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Came home & finished "Vanity Fair" before tea-time.'	John Buckley Castieau	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading t...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading t...	John Buckley Castieau	Brothers Grimm	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & stayed there chatting & reading until nearly ten o'clock'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The Papers this morning contained a Telegram stating that Mr Charles Smyth the Acting Judge showed great strangeness ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Pall Mall Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Handy Andy	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Club in the evening & had a look at Punch.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I sat up smoking & reading with an occasional turn at nagging till nearly twelve o'clock'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[fairy tales?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Went into Melbourne & read the papers at "The Yorick" then took a turn through Bourke Street & then home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'then I went into town & called in at the Yorick to read the papers. Recently a youthful individual with innumerable b...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Was sorry to read in The Argus of this morning that "Tommy Hoyle" the well known Beechworth [?] met with an accident ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick in the afternoon. The Club however was unusually empty for Saturday afternoon & so I did not do mu...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[fairy tales?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Instead of mustering this afternoon I went to the Yorick. The men were however arguing politics & I held my tongue & ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to "The Yorick" but did not stay longer than necessary to have a look at the Herald. The Victorians won the Cric...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Graphic	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Received the Ovens & Murray. It contained the letter I wrote a few days since. I thought it read very so so but Polly...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went into town & read the Newspapers at the Club'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[stories]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Went to the Club in the evening & read some of the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Club. Skimmed some of the papers then purchased The Australasian'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening after Mr & Mrs Hall were gone I went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'in the evening went to the Yorick where I spent some time in reading the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'A report in the Telegraph Newspaper this morning was to the effect that the Sheriff would probably be chosen from Mr ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to Melbourne & called at the Club where I had a look at Punch & the other papers '	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read ["Lalla Rookh"?] till dinner time'	John Buckley Castieau	Thomas Moore	Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'after Muster went into town & read the papers at the Yorick'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'went into the office where I wrote a little article in reply to a stupid Leader that appeared in The Telegraph of thi...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening when the weather had taken up I went to the Club & read for some time, then came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'When I got back Polly had gone to bed so I sat & read for an hour & then followed her up stairs. The book I was readi...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Commenced reading some awful rubbish there is in "Blueskin", a catch-penny thieves book which glorifies "Jack Sheppar...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After Muster I went to the Club & stayed there reading for a short time, then came home to tea'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read "Jack Sheppard" or rather "Blueskin", smoked some strong tobacco &...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the "Yorick" & had a look over the newspapers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers until tea time'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, nothing very ... or interesting'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, the only item in the Evening Herald of any consequence was the announcement of ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, then came home to tea.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Found the youngsters had not gone to bed so aroused them by reading some little stories'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[fairy tales?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed at home this evening. Read a little to the children'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[fairy tales?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[fairy tales?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extra...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extra...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Stayed at home all the evening, first amused myself with Reading, smoking & dreaming'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'This evening's Herald gave the names of Duffy's Ministry'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'so went to the Club. There I glanced over the Weeklies & then came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[weekly newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of "Wait for the End" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until af...	John Buckley Castieau	Mark Lemon	Wait for the End	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening I amused myself with reading while Polly amused or instructed herself at the piano.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'On the Road bought an Extraordinary which was published this morning, the English Mail having arrived in the night. T...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Extraordinary (Argus)	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon, then went to the Club & read the Evening Paper'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Mustered in the afternoon & spent the evening reading & disagreeing'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to "the Yorick" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Cornhill	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening read for a while, then played Bezique with Mrs Castieau'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to "the Yorick" & had a look at some of the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After Muster read "Gil Blas" for a while, then played "Bezique" with Polly.'	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'after Muster wrote a page in my Diary & read until nearly five o'clock'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening read "Gil Blas"'	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening I was very lazily inclined & sat over "Gil Blas" for some time'	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the Ovens & Murray to-day we learnt the death of Mrs Telford, the poor lady died at last very suddenly. She has ho...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'when I went into the house after Muster I found that Polly had gone away to Elsternwick with Harry, Sissy & Dotty so ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & ch...	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & ch...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how muc...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Le Fevre	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern ...	Winifred Holtby	Virginia Woolf	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Sup...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Moore	View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift	Tale of a Tub, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Gr...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simp...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Derham	Physico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melanc...	Hester Lynch Thrale		'To Melancholy'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Dev...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her whom I love best']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Story of Bond expiring in the character of Lusignan is prettily told in some of the French Memoires, but one had ...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[French Memoirs]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Another writer D.J. rated highly was Thomas Hardy, whose novel "Jude the Obscure" he used to read and re-read with wh...	David John Thomas	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as "Rainbow"'.	Dylan Thomas		Rainbow	Print: Serial / periodical, comic
	1900-1945	'Reading aloud meant group recitation, which Dylan hated. Chanting a poem in unison one afternoon, he put his hands ov...	Dylan Thomas	William Shakespeare	Richard II	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	Thomas Browne		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	Thomas de Quincey		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	Henry Newbolt		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	William Blake		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	John Keats		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	Christopher Marlowe		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	Emmuska Orczy		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	David Herbert Lawrence		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas	Edgar Allan Poe		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas		Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...	Dylan Thomas		Chums Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali...	Dylan Thomas		Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali...	Dylan Thomas	William Blake	Songs of Innocence	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali...	Dylan Thomas	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali...	Dylan Thomas		[Border Ballads]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently ...	Winifred Holtby	St. John Ervine	God's Soldier	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".'	Winifred Holtby	Thomas Edward Lawrence	Seven Pillars of Wisdom	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a...	Winifred Holtby	Liddell Hart	T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After	Unknown
	1900-1945	'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to...	Winifred Holtby	Vita Sackville-West	The Land	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The weather was very wet all the evening so I was not able to go out & contented myself with reading Gil Blas till ne...	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I stayed at home & read "Gil Blas" till it was time to go to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'in the evening I went into town, called at the Yorick & looked at the Weeklies'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening read a little of Antony Trollope's West Indies '	John Buckley Castieau	Anthony Trollope	West Indies	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little...	John Buckley Castieau	William Makepeace Thackeray	The Newcomes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[stories]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Club & had a glance at the Illustrated Papers & Punch which arrived by this Mail'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the nar...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the nar...	John Buckley Castieau	Richard Harris Barham	Ingoldsby Legends	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After Muster had tea & read the Evening Paper'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'then I went to the Club where I stayed & read an Article in Blackwood then came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, "The Vicar of Bullha...	John Buckley Castieau	Anthony Trollope	The Vicar of Bullhampton	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".'	John Buckley Castieau	Oliver Goldsmith	She stoops to conquer	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] "She stoops to conquer".'	John Buckley Castieau	Oliver Goldsmith	She stoops to conquer	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read some of the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went into the town in the evening & read the papers at the Club.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Fraser's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In The Argus this morning I was very sorry to see the death of Dempster's little boy recorded. This was the only son ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Commenced reading a tale in Good Words "Oswald [?]"'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Good Words	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three c...	John Buckley Castieau	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed at home this evening & after doing a little reading & visiting the pigs played Bezique with Polly till it was ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the Argus of this morning there was a leading article commenting on Duncan's appointment to the charge of the Gaol...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Mustered & then lazily read The Cloister & the Hearth by Read until Polly came home to tea'	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Reade	The Cloister and the Hearth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Came home to tea & spent the evening reading "The Cloister & Hearth".'	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Reade	The Cloister and the Hearth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Received a number of Ovens & Murray Advertisers this morning which however contained little of any consequence that I...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'There was a notice on the Board that baths could be had at the Club at a charge of 3d each to pay for towells &c. I c...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[sign]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	'There was a little rain before I got back to the Gaol, then I had dinner & read the Pickwick Papers till about nine o...	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This brought the time to past ten o'clock. Read, smoked, fidgetted & passed the time away till half past eleven, then...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'then went to the Club & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the Evening paper this evening an account was given of two large fires at Sydney this morning, one of which destro...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the Evening Herald, of this night, there was a Report of an Argument before the Supreme Court with respect to Park...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea went with Polly into town & there heard a great commotion in the crowd & number of boys selling the Argus E...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Extraordinary (Argus)	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'By the Argus we found that the Mail had been telegraphed at midnight. The Prince had been most dangerously ill but th...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Could not muster to-day but laid myself down on the Sofa & read'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'in the evening I went to the Club & had a look at Melbourne Punch & one or two of the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Club & on the Road called in at the Albion as I wanted to see the Ovens & Murray Advertise...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The English mail was telegraphed this afternoon ... Extraordinaries were being sold when we were coming home. I bough...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Extraordinary (Argus)	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'in the evening went to the Club & after reading the papers took a walk & then came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went as usual to the Club & after skimming some of the English periodicals went for a little stroll wi...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - periodicals]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Club & after reading the papers started to keep an appointment I had made with Polly & M...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes ho...	John Buckley Castieau	Alexandre Dumas	Memoirs of a physician	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the Evening Herald published to night it was stated that Mr Dunn now Crown Prosecutor was to be made a County Cour...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Case of Blair V Clarson was commenced in the Supreme Court to day & from what I saw in The Herald the details are...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated &...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Saturday Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each cop...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Leader	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Chatterbox	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Bible (New Testament)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I bought "The Age" as to-day it published a paper larger than "The Argus" for a penny & announced the intention of do...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Received four Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They contained however very little news though their telegrams are so full ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & too...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Came home, drank a bottle of beer, smoked ever so many pipes, read a book, & built castles in the air till Polly & th...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'There was a stinging article in the Age of this morning commenting upon the failings & peculiarities of the Judges'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went into town in the evening & called at the Yorick. There I remained reading for some time then I took a walk as fa...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Eng...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	The Graphic	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'There was a heavy article in the Argus this morning ... on the Government for the appointments they have made since t...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & afterwards went to the Club. There I read the Herald until it was time to go home to tea'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Received a number of papers from Beechworth. The Ovens & Murray has I think become rather duller since it has appeare...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[story books]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Received to-day six numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was nothing in any of them very interesting to an...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Land...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Land...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Club. In the Evening Herald there was a startling telegram from Ballaarat announcing that [six prisoners ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Argus of this morning contained a manifesto from Alipius, Roman Catholic bishop of Melbourne calling upon good ch...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Received a week's Ovens & Murray Advertisers to-day. There was a very good skit in one. It was an account of "The fir...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Telo gave me "The Leader" with the Prison letters article. There was'ent much in it excepting the two guineas it gave...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Leader	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve...	John Buckley Castieau	William Edmondstoune Aytoun	The Execution of Montrose	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve...	John Buckley Castieau	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Eve of Waterloo)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time'	John Buckley Castieau	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e...	John Buckley Castieau	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e...	John Buckley Castieau	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'"Bowman" I see by this Evening's paper is to be Deputy Judge while Judge Hackett is doing the work of Judges Cope & N...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an ac...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'	John Buckley Castieau	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	Married Beneath Him	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Vanity Fair	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Public Opinion	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I was much amused by one prisoner's letter that in the course of Duty I read to-day. The prisoner is in Gaol for beat...	John Buckley Castieau	[prisoner]	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ...	John Buckley Castieau	John Buckley Castieau	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ...	John Buckley Castieau	Peter Parley [pseud.]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read to the youngsters in the evening'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After Muster I went to the Club & had a look at the Weekly Papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n...	John Buckley Castieau	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Guardian Angel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from th...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Good Words	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I havenâ€™t yet finished the book...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	The Soul of a Bishop	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldnâ€™t get the book off Marguerit...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Swinnerton	Shops and Houses	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church o...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[stories]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I thin...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	The Secret City	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Graphic	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechwort...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I am reading 'Mr. Spongeâ€™s Sporting Tour'. Rather good.'	Arnold Bennett	R.S. Surtees	Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[stories]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Australasian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Arabian Nights, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I return "The Moon and Sixpence" and your criticism. I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have la...	Arnold Bennett	W. Somerset Maugham	The Moon and Sixpence	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I regret that you have given up the "New Statesman". The old editor has returned from the war & the paper is in its ...	Arnold Bennett		New Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[prison report]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	re: 'September' 'This work is admirably conceived and just about perfectly constructed . . . It is incomparably t...	Arnold Bennett	Frank Swinnerton	September	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[stories]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Have you read the 'New Statesman' this week? If not, read it. I take pride in the fact that I more than anybody ...	Arnold Bennett		New Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Did not sleep at all well last night for I was haunted with the dread of the Papers making a mess of the Case of Weec...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the Argus of this morning there was a paragraph stating that the Governor of the Gaol referred to by Mr Duffy was ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening played bagatelle & read portion of "A man made of money" one of Douglas Jerrold's stories that I think...	John Buckley Castieau	Douglas Jerrold	A man made of money	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the Argus of this morning there appeared the article I had written on "Prisons & Prisoners". It appeared to me to ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Evening Herald published an account of the trial of the Captain of the Carl at Sydney. The brutalities that took ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I stayed at home & after [reading] the paper smoked till I was sleepy then I went off to bed & was sleeping soundly w...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends'	John Buckley Castieau	Richard Harris Barham	Ingoldsby Legends	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens and Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'This evening in the Herald there was a long paragraph about the needle-work done by the women in the Gaol work-room, ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I stayed at home & read'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Speaking of the drama, you should read the preface to Shawâ€™s new book of plays. As a journalistic performance i...	Arnold Bennett	G. B. Shaw	Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets About the War	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'then returned home & amused myself for an hour reading "Gil Blas".'	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'after four o'clock went to the Club. Read a lot of papers there & got home in good time for tea'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I have now perused the L.M.I. & will inflict my views on you. It is on the whole what I should call a "sound" numb...	Arnold Bennett		London Mercury	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'George Mooreâ€™s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.'	Arnold Bennett	George Moore	Avowals	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine....	John Buckley Castieau	William Makepeace Thackeray	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the p...	John Buckley Castieau	William Makepeace Thackeray	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of "The Wicked World" or Melb...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Weekly Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'The more I read of H.G.â€™s 'Outline' the more staggered I am by it.'	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	The Outline of History	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Up this morning in good time & had a long read of the Argus before I went into the office.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Dr Syntax	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'Lo...	Arnold Bennett		London Mercury	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & r...	John Buckley Castieau	John Buckley Castieau	[papers]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'then went to the Club. Read for a time & then came home to tea, the Herald had a Paragraph pointing out the stupidity...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	â€˜Wayfarerâ€™ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C...	Arnold Bennett		Nation	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	â€˜Wayfarerâ€™ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Garvice	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	â€˜Wayfarerâ€™ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C...	Arnold Bennett	Florence Barclay	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'There was a tale in the Age of yesterday called "The wife's revenge" it was very well written & described a heartless...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Commenced as soon as I had been through the Gaol to read some of my Diary for 1871'	John Buckley Castieau	John Buckley Castieau	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	'. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Mooreâ€™s 'Avowals' and the letters of Ch...	Arnold Bennett	George Moore	Avowals	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Mooreâ€™s 'Avowals' and the letters of Che...	Arnold Bennett	Anton Chekhov	Letters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'in the evening I did a little reading & went to bed early'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelv...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I read until the children & Miss McDermott went to bed, then I smoked away until ten o'clock went to b...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening read away for some time & had some words with Polly on a very disagreeable subject'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read during the evening & went to bed at about eleven'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Was much annoyed by a Leading Article in The Argus about the Gaol & Penal Department'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evide...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'read in the evening & went to bed early'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening I read the papers & went to bed before ten o'clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the Argus of this morning was published Jardine Smith's Leader on the Gaol. It commenced with an Apology for a pre...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'spent the evening at home reading'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'in the afternoon amused myself as well as I could with the newspapers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I amused myself reading the Saturday Age'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I amused myself by reading "Cast up from the Sea" a book written by Mr Baker the Explorer. It served w...	John Buckley Castieau	Baker	Cast up from the sea	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits alou...	John Buckley Castieau	George MacDonald	The Vicar's Daughter	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & "Monte Christo" m...	John Buckley Castieau	Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read at the Athenaeum.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we ha...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'after eight o'clock Harry & I went to "The Athenaeum" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a lo...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'before tea I took a stroll to the Athenaeum where I read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum and read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light di...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three gam...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Between five & six Polly came down stairs & then I went off to the Athenaeum & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought "the Leader" because it contained the commencement of...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Leader	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted w...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted w...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here t...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Castlemaine Representative	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same t...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the E...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	The Age	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & read the papers, got home by a little after eight'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'This evening I was sitting quietly reading the Evening Herald when I noticed Polly show some considerable excitement ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown - novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed up late reading & smoking'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by r...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Sarah Barnham	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Evening Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I stayed at Home the whole day & read "John Bull & his island"'	John Buckley Castieau	Max O'Rell	John Bull and his island	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes t...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Sarah Barnham	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the m...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening commenced reading again a book called Five years in Penal Servitude. The book refers to English prison...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	Five Years in Penal Servitude	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read & wrote till bed time'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Had something to eat & then read & smoked till after twelve o'clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Went to bed after reading for a long while'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'A Paragraph appeared in the Argus to the effect that I was to retire & Brett to be appointed in my place'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Argus	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Unknown	Unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous ...	Catherine Gladstone	Mary Augusta Ward	Robert Elsmere	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter from T.H. Huxley to Mrs Ward] You will think I have taken my time about thanking you for "David Grieve"; but ...	Thomas Henry Huxley	Mary Augusta Ward	David Grieve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter from Henry James to Mrs Ward] I think the tale very straightforward and powerful - very direct and vivid, ful...	Henry James	Mary Augusta Ward	Bessie Costrell	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[during a riddle game at Mrs Ward's home, Stocks] Lord Acton, who had that day devoured ten books of Biblical critici...	John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton		[biblical criticism]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha...	Arnold Bennett	Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha...	Arnold Bennett	Sir Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Mary Berensonâ€™s article on eighteenth century architecture in Spain most interestingly illustrates a principle ...	Arnold Bennett	Mary Berenson	[article on C18th architecture]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I enclose in this envelope a copy of the 'Economic Review of the Foreign Press'. . . . I know the periodical very w...	Arnold Bennett		Economic Review of the Foreign Press	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Canâ€™t something be done to buck up the 'Lit. Suppl'.? It is getting duller & duller, though it always contains 1 o...	Arnold Bennett		Times Literary Supplement	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I do not agree with you as to Gibbsâ€™ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculo...	Arnold Bennett	Philip Gibbs	Realities of War	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I do not agree with you as to Gibbsâ€™ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridicul...	Arnold Bennett	Arthur Conan Doyle	The British Campaign in France and Flanders	Print: Book
	1700-1799	John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b...	John Wilson Croker	Virgil	Aeneid I	Print: Book
	1700-1799	John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b...	John Wilson Croker	Virgil	Eclogues I	Print: Book
	1700-1799	John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b...	John Wilson Croker	Alexander Pope	translations from Homer	Print: Book
	1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to his wife, 28 July 1850: 'After dinner I read some of the letters written by Charles Long and ...	John Wilson Croker	Charles Long and Lord Mulgrave	letters to Lord Lonsdale	Unknown
	1800-1849	Spencer Perceval to John Wilson Croker, 11 November 1810: 'I thank you for the sight of H[uskisson]'s pamphlet. I h...	Spencer Perceval	William Huskisson	'The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our Currency Stated and Examined'
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815: '[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prin...	John Wilson Croker	Napoleon Bonaparte	letter to the Prince Regent	Manuscript: Unknown, Copied.
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816: 'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold III	Unknown
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...	John Wilson Croker	Walter Scott		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...	John Wilson Croker	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...	John Wilson Croker	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to William Blackwood, 24 August 1819: 'I have received your last number [...] As a series of ess...	John Wilson Croker		Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819: 'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review'	Unknown
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little off...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan: cantos I-II	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I had Crabbe's tales with me on shipboard, and they were a treasu...	John Wilson Croker	Crabbe	Tales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Robert Peel, 24 December 1821: 'I have seen in the Courier the accounts from the Irish papers...	John Wilson Croker		Courier	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you hav...	Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool	Horace Walpole	letters to Lord Hertford	Unknown
	1800-1849	Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the g...	Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool	Prior	Life of Burke	Unknown
	1800-1849	From John Wilson Croker's Note Books, 24 October 1825: 'The first time I ever saw [Germaine de Stael] was at dinner...	John Wilson Croker	Camille Desmoulins	journal	Unknown
	1900-1945	'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ...	Janet Penrose Ward	Adolf Julicher	An Introduction to the New Testament	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward] had found a task for Mrs Lyttelton's quick mind, to while away the too-long hours of that summer [while h...	Katherine Lyttelton	Joseph Joubert	Pensees	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833: 'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at...	John Wilson Croker		report of death of Lord Exmouth	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to his wife, whilst in Oxford for the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the U...	John Wilson Croker			Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book ["Fields of Vic...	Hastings Anderson	Mary Augusta Ward	Fields of Victory	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I donâ€™t yet class it with 'La Ch...	Arnold Bennett	Henri Beyle [Stendhal]	Lucien Leuwen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I donâ€™t yet class it with 'La Ch...	Arnold Bennett	Henri Beyle [Stendhal]	La Chartreuse de Parme	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itse...	Arnold Bennett	AndrÃ© Gide	Isabelle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells, In spite of my brotherly adm...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	The Captives	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'About 2/3rds of this play is undoubtedly very fine. I think it weakens in structure in the 3rd act. . . . I only me...	Arnold Bennett	Robert Nichols	Guillty Souls	Print: completed draft of play
	1900-1945	'. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummerâ€™s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romant...	Arnold Bennett	George Moore	A Mummer's Wife	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say...	Arnold Bennett	Ethel Smyth	Streaks of Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say...	Arnold Bennett	Ethel Smyth	Impressions that Remained	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom kno...	Arnold Bennett		Express	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom kno...	Arnold Bennett		Daily Herald	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	It is 1,000 pities the 'Express' didnâ€™t get the Wells Washington stuff. His first 3 articles in the 'Mail' have bee...	Arnold Bennett		Daily Mail	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative. By God yo...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	The Young Enchanted	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have just borrowed a copy of 'Ulysses'. It appears to me to be jolly good, and it is certainly the most obscene gen...	Arnold Bennett	James Joyce	Ulysses	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Pontigny is not marked in the largest and best English atlas. But I had the wit to look for it in the 'Grand Larouss...	Arnold Bennett		Grand Larousse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full ...	Arnold Bennett	H Hamer [anon]	Roasted Angels
	1900-1945	I have been re-reading 'Du CÃ´tÃ©.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i...	Arnold Bennett	Marcel Proust	Du CotÃ© chez Swann	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have been re-reading 'Du CÃ´tÃ©.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i...	Arnold Bennett	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have been re-reading 'Du CÃ´tÃ©.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i...	Arnold Bennett	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Les Freres Karamazov	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have not read 'La GarÃ§onne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen...	Arnold Bennett	Victor Margueritte	La Garconne	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have not read 'La GarÃ§onne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen...	Arnold Bennett	Paul Margueritte	Le DÃ©sastre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Frederic Harrison	Meaning of History, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated'	John Luther Hawkins	John Luther Hawkins	[paper of Stopford Brooke's 'Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated'	John Luther Hawkins	Stopford Brooke	Tennyson: his Art and Relation to Modern Life	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover B...	John Luther Hawkins	Matthew Arnold	'Dover Beach'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover B...	Florence Hawkins	Matthew Arnold	'Forsaken Merman, The'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to J. H. Jesse, 5 December 1843: 'I am much obliged by your kind attention in sending me your Se...	John Wilson Croker	J. H. Jesse	(apparently) Selwyn and His Contemporaries	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846: 'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[...	John Gibson Lockhart	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	The New Timon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 16 December 1846: 'H[enry]. B[rougham]. spoke with bitterness [...] of ...	Henry Brougham		Bedford Letters vol 3	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847: 'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, whic...	John Wilson Croker	anon	'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel'	Unknown
	1800-1849	John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: '...	John Gibson Lockhart	Thomas Babington Macaulay	History of England, vols 1 and 2	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: '...	John Gibson Lockhart	Grote	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51): 'And so you are reading my Bozzy'.	Henry Brougham	James Boswell	Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853: 'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to beco...	John Wilson Croker	Benjamin Disraeli	'Buckinghamshire speeches'	Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Charlotte Smith		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Maria Edgeworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Theodore Hook	Gilbert Gurney	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Charles Dickens	short fictions	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Charles Dickens	novels	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to John Murray jr, 14 February 1857: 'I have been so very ill as to have been unable until yeste...	John Wilson Croker		article on Duke of Wellington	Print: Serial / periodical
	1600-1699	'was buseed about that all day tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed publeckly'	John Corrow	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'	John Corrow	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wi...	John Corrow	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'	John Corrow	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didnâ€™t like 'The Cath'. well eno...	Arnold Bennett	W.B. Maxwell	Spinster of this Parish	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didnâ€™t like 'The Cath'. well eno...	Arnold Bennett	Hugh Walpole	The Cathedral	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didnâ€™t like 'The Cath'. well eno...	Arnold Bennett		Notable British Trials	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Many thanks for the book on Methuselahs. ['Some Impressions of my Elders']Shame to say, Iâ€™ve only read myself in...	Arnold Bennett	Arnold Bennett	Some Impressions of my Elders	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ...	Arnold Bennett	Geoffrey Lapage	Tommy Fidler	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ...	Arnold Bennett	Geoffrey Bullough	From Bondage	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ...	Arnold Bennett	Kate Simmonds	The Best Policy	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	.. . . I have no prejudice against the young, rather the reverse, and yet I am looking in vain for a really good novel...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Men Like Gods	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Pardon a word of unsolicited criticism about your venture. I think the contents are pretty creditable, but I think th...	Arnold Bennett		Adelphi	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	Trees and Babies and Papas and Mamas	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit...	Arnold Bennett	H.M. Tomlinson	The Estuary	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit...	Arnold Bennett	H.M. Tomlinson	The Estuary	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit...	Arnold Bennett	Katherine Mansfield	The Samuel Josephs	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit...	Arnold Bennett		Mr Joiner and the Bible	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byronâ€™s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian prefa...	Arnold Bennett	Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	It is not an article at all. [â€˜Adrien van de Venneâ€™ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an...	Arnold Bennett	Thomas Bodkin	Adrien van de Venne	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Iâ€™ll tell you what I think of â€˜Golgothaâ€™. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni...	Arnold Bennett	Robert Nichols	Golgotha & Co.	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Iâ€™ll tell you what I think of â€˜Golgothaâ€™. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni...	Arnold Bennett	Aldous Huxley	On the Margin	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almo...	Arnold Bennett	AndrÃ© Gide	Dostoevsky	Print: Book
	1900-1945	After reading what you said about 'The Eternal Husband', I read that story again. Je le trouve un peu manquÃ©, surtou...	Arnold Bennett	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	The Eternal Husband	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.'	Elizabeth Ann Smith	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis'	Helen Rawlings	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis'	Constance Wallis	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch news...	Benjamin Murray	[n/a]	Weekly Dispatch	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch news...	Benjamin Murray	[n/a]	[handbill]	Print: Handbill
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for murder: Henry Wignall: 'the 1st of January was Sundayâ€”on the 1st of January I was in...	Henry Wignall	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for deception: John Dawson: 'about a year and nine months ago, I saw an advertisement in t...	John Dawson	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Ann Hatton: 'On Saturday, the 30th of June, between one and two o'clock in...	Mary Ann Hatton	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for s...	Jonas Levy	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: John Henry Bradley: 'I heard no more of it till I saw in the newspaper that th...	John Henry Bradley	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: William John Boden: 'Q. Where were you? A. In the parlourâ€”the door was openâ€...	William John Boden	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: Edmund Fargens: 'I afterwards saw a paragraph in the newspaper, in consequence...	Edmund Fargens	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: Esther Lane: 'she had had half a pint of beer, and been reading the newspaper'	Jane Barnett	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K...	Lilian Goadby	Charles Kingsley		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl...	Elizabeth Ann Smith		Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[paper on Life of Edward Fitzgerald]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl...	Helen Rawlings		Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Robert Browning	'May and Death'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Robert Browning	'Prospice'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...	Helen Rawlings	Robert Browning	'Evelyn Hope'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...	Allan Goadby	Robert Browning	'Garden Fancies'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...	Allan Goadby	Robert Browning	'Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa...	Allan Goadby	Rudyard Kipling		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...	Lilian Goadby	Lillian Goadby	[explanation of Jabberwock etymology] from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...	Allan Goadby	Lewis Carroll [pseud.]	[the Mad Tea Party, from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read DH Lawrence's "Kangaroo". How I hated (in italics) it! Altho I think the Chapter about the War is we...	Ottoline Morrell	David Herbert Lawrence	Kangaroo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I will strive to let you have a note about AndrÃ© Mauroisâ€™s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'. It is a very bright thing.	Arnold Bennett	AndrÃ© Maurois	Ariel: ou la vie de Shelley	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Ri...	Arnold Bennett		La Nouvelle Revue Francaise	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Ri...	Arnold Bennett	Marcel Jouhandeau	Clodomir l'assassin	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'We have just had a new edition of the works of Hale White (Mark Rutherford). It is a miserable and ill-printed editi...	Arnold Bennett	Mark Rutherford	The Novels of Mark Rutherford	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My objection to the policy of the 'Express' of late is that I canâ€™t understand itâ€”nor have I met anyone else who ...	Arnold Bennett		Express	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it. It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee...	Arnold Bennett	Havelock Ellis	The Dance of Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.'	Arnold Bennett	Frank Swinnerton	Young Felix	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ...	Helen Rawlings	William Shakespeare	Cymbeline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Prisoner's statement in trial for murder: Daniel Johncock: 'I read the Times newspaper, and read of the suicide of a...	Daniel Johncock	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: George Martin: 'Q. You saw Martin leave the box and go to get the newspapers? A...	Ellen Martin	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: John Scott: 'about one o'clock in the day on the 1st of May, I was in the Frenc...	John Scott	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Theodore James: 'I did not go before the Magistrate on this matterâ€”I sa...	Henry Theodore James	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'.	William Henry Smith	William Henry Smith	[Paper on Ruskin]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ...	Blanche Ridges	John Ruskin	Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for murder: Richard John Moxey: '[Manning] said, "Is the wretch taken?"â€”I said I did not...	Richard John Moxey	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa...	Lilian Goadby	Lilian Goadby	[account of life of William Morris]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa...	Blanche Ridges	Blanche Ridges	[paper on William Morris and socialism]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa...	Blanche Ridges	William Morris	[political works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...	Florence Reynolds	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	poetry	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...	Allan Goadby	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	poetry	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...	John Ridges	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	'Sir Galahad'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...	John Ridges	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	'St Agnes' Eve'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa...	Lilian Goadby	Lillian Goadby	[paper on Burns's life]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[paper on Burns as song writer]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa...	Helen Rawlings	Robert Burns	'Cotter's Saturday Night'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Robert Burns		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ...	Helen Rawlings	Charles Lamb		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel...	Blanche Ridges	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel...	Lilian Goadby	Lilian Goadby	[paper on Jane Austen]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel...	Lilian Goadby	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.'	Blanche Ridges	Blanche Ridges	[paper on Elizabeth von Arnim's 'Solitary Summer']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.'	Blanche Ridges	Elizabeth von Arnim	Solitary Summer, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b...	Arnold Bennett	Roger Martin du Gard	Jean Barois	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b...	Arnold Bennett	Valery Larbaud	Amants, heureux amants	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,...	Arnold Bennett	Valery Larbaud	Amants, heureux amants	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,...	Arnold Bennett	James Joyce	Ulysses	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav...	Arnold Bennett	Pauline Smith	The Little Karoo	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav...	Arnold Bennett	Pauline Smith	The Beadle	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846: 'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "Histor...	Henry Hallam	George Grote	A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846: 'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "Histor...	Henry Hallam	George Grote	A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sarah Austin to Harriet Grote, wife to George Grote, 29 August 1847: 'His [Austin's husband John] great comfort, du...	John Austin	George Grote	A History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Stuart Mill to George Grote, January 1849: 'I have just finished reading the two volumes with the greatest ple...	John Stuart Mill	George Grote	A History of Greece (vols 5 and 6)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Eve stayed in to do her Bible Questions. As she was looking through the chapter on the deception of Isaac by Jacob an...	Evelyn Soutar	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now rea...	Lady Georgina Cavendish		'the black penitent'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (January 1803): 'I am now going for 2 or 3 hours to ex...	Selina Trimmer			Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'	John Ruskin	Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi	Italian Republics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla...	John Ruskin	Henry Fielding	Amelia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla...	John Ruskin	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla...	John Ruskin	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.'	John Ruskin	James Galiffe	Italy and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in that country in 1816 and 1817	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they...	John Ruskin	Captain Frederick Marryat	Diary in America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo...	John Ruskin	Louis Agassiz	Recherches sur les poissons fossiles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo...	John Ruskin	Walter Scott	Kenilworth: a romance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French rev...	John Ruskin	Sir Archibald Alison	History of Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.'	John Ruskin	Jacob Bryant	Treatise on the Authenticity of the Scriptures	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; ...	John Ruskin	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deu...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in...	John Ruskin	John Henry Newman	Essay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'	John Ruskin	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friend	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.'	John Ruskin	Jean-Baptiste Dumas	Essai de statique chimique des Ã©tres organisÃ©s	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsumm...	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	King John	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful ...	John Ruskin	W. Orme	Life and Times of Richard Baxter	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, e...	John Ruskin	W. Orme	Life and Times of Richard Baxter	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin...	John Ruskin	Allan Cunningham	Life of Sir David Wilkie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin...	John Ruskin	Allan Cunningham	Lives of eminent British painters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour...	John Ruskin	Plato	Phaedrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'	John Ruskin	Sir Archibald Alison	History of Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[chemistry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...	John Ruskin	Gustav Friedrich Waagen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Italian]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin...	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin...	John Ruskin	Pliny	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin...	John Ruskin	Alexis FranÃ§ois Rio	De la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans sa matiere at dans ses formes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'	John Ruskin	Gustav Friedrich Waagen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Italian]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'	John Ruskin	Gustav Friedrich Waagen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read some Greek'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Greek]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipat...	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille [ed.]	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len...	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille [ed.]	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Art Union	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.'	John Ruskin	Robert Southey	Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'	John Ruskin	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.'	John Ruskin	Richard Owen	Fossil Mammalia	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read some Sir Joshua"	John Ruskin	Sir Joshua Reynolds	The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of "Clouds".'	John Ruskin	Aristophanes	Clouds, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Witness	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'	John Ruskin	Aristophanes	Clouds, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'	John Ruskin	Edmund Spenser [?]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'	John Ruskin	Richard Hooker [?]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read a little Sir Joshua'	John Ruskin	Sir Joshua Reynolds	The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'. I have been greatly impressed by it. It held me thr...	Arnold Bennett	Maurice Baring	C	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tr...	John Ruskin	J.S. Davenport	Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church	Print: tract
	1900-1945	I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lostâ€”I donâ€™t know how, but I obtained ano...	Arnold Bennett	Hubert Griffith	Tunnel Trench	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury...	Arnold Bennett	J.B. Priestley	Figures in Modern Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that sett...	John Ruskin	George [?] Berkeley	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember ou...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercur...	Arnold Bennett	J.B. Priestley		Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contr...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the mo...	John Ruskin	Dante Alighieri	Inferno	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wantin...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments...	Arnold Bennett	Margaret Kennedy	The Constant Nymph	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies,...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too imp...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomp...	Arnold Bennett	L.G. Johnson	Arnold Bennett of the Five Towns	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease ...	John Ruskin	George Herbert	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease ...	John Ruskin	Henry Vaughan	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painfu...	John Ruskin	George Smith	Hints for the times
	1900-1945	I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomp...	Arnold Bennett	Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton	Arnold Bennett	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after l...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Acts)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I do not know sufficient about Villiers de lâ€™Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'Lâ€™Eve Future'. I h...	Arnold Bennett	Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam	L'Eve Future	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I staid in and read Byron'	John Ruskin	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System o...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Revelations)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the A...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4:...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Proverbs)	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions abou...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II....	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, ...	John Ruskin	John Charles Ryle	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new c...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Genesis)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek ...	John Ruskin	William Bell Scott	[memoir David Scott]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".'	John Ruskin	Sir John Gardner Wilkinson	Egypt	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.'	John Ruskin	St Bede	An Ecclesiastical History of the English People	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in margi...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Christian Year	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Channing on Napoleon'	John Ruskin	W.E. Channing	Remarks on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.'	John Ruskin	Henriette Cabrieres	La dame aux cheveux gris	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicat...	John Ruskin	Hans Christen Andersen	[tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as ...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Journal pour tous	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and pass...	John Ruskin	George Sand	La Petite Fadette	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.'	John Ruskin	George Sand	Le peche de M. Antoine	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it...	John Ruskin	George Sand	Le peche de M. Antoine	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and...	John Ruskin	George Sand	Francois le Champi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.'	John Ruskin	Xenophon	Memorabilia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'	John Ruskin	Xenophon	Memorabilia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias"	John Ruskin	Alexandre ` Dumas	La Dame aux CamÃ©lias	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avan...	John Ruskin	Gaullieur	Histoire de Geneve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read to end of p. 269.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read to end of p. 270.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read only Geology'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[geology]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[geology]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur...	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read geology'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[geology]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read to children under tree.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Daily Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read "Anne Babi".'	John Ruskin	Jeremias Gotthelf	Anne Babi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson...	John Ruskin	William Wordsworth	The Excursion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read "Anne Babi" to my mother in evening'	John Ruskin	Jeremias Gotthelf	Anne Babi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mama up again, read nice bits of "Anne Babi" to her after dinner'	John Ruskin	Jeremias Gotthelf	Anne Babi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.'	John Ruskin	anon	Dorothea Trudel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'	John Ruskin	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Bleak House" in evening'	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.'	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	Henry IV Part I	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Lady of Glynne" in evening.'	John Ruskin	Julia Cecilia Stretton	Lady of Glynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'finished "Lady of Glynne".'	John Ruskin	Julia Cecilia Stretton	Lady of Glynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Fortunes of Nigel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Chess and "Quentin Durward".'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Finished "Quentin Durward"'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Began "Tour de Jacob" again.'	John Ruskin	Jeremias Gotthelf	Tour de Jacob	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 61st Psalm'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'37th Psalm in evening!'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jean Ingelow'	John Ruskin	Jean Ingelow	[poems?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.'	John Ruskin	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	Lady Audley's Secret	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible o...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the gist of "Ecce Homo".'	John Ruskin	J.R. Seeley	Ecce Homo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I do not know sufficient about Villiers de lâ€™Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'Lâ€™Eve Future'. I h...	Arnold Bennett	Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam	L'Eve Future	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I do not know sufficient about Villiers de lâ€™Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'Lâ€™Eve Future'. I h...	Arnold Bennett	Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam	Contes Cruels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".'	John Ruskin	Maria Edgeworth	Ormond	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I do not know sufficient about Villiers de lâ€™Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'Lâ€™Eve Future'. I h...	Arnold Bennett	Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam	Nouveaux Contes Cruels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[life of Lord Byron]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to the...	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judge...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barret Browning	[poems]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[geology]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Then rested, and read Topffer's "Nouvelles Genevoises" - excellent talk but no "nouvelles".'	John Ruskin	Topffer	Nouvelles Genevoises	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise...	John Ruskin	George Sand	Mademoiselle de Merquem	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning, reading "Lady of Glynne".'	John Ruskin	Julia Cecilia Stretton	Lady of Glynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[poems]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening'	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read of Empress Theodora'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read economy of 12th century'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa...	John Ruskin	John James Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Opened 3rd of Tobit'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Tobit)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Took up Renan's "St Paul" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I...	John Ruskin	Ernest Renan	St Paul	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Fortnightly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (John)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Michael Angelo's "Pastoral".'	John Ruskin	Michael Angelo	Pastoral	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read chief part of Helps' "Conquerors of the New World".'	John Ruskin	Sir Arthur Helps	Conquerors of the New World	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[advertisement]	Print: Advertisement
	1850-1899	'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Luke)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.'	John Ruskin	John James Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26'	John Ruskin	John James Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ecclesiastes)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Roman de la rose [?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Began "Friedrich" to purpose and worked well.'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Rouen missal with advantage'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday ... Worked at "Frederick".'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"Friedrich".'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Foster's essays.'	John Ruskin	John Foster	[essays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Roman de la rose [?]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Now my sweet Francis I have read your book in this Alpine district. . . . There is not, really, much fault to be fou...	Arnold Bennett	Francis Hackett	That Nice Young Couple	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excell...	Arnold Bennett	Edward Knoblock	stories [unidentified]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	I noticed strangely few misprints in 'C.A.â€™s Pa'. though I had my malicious eye open for them.	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Christina Alberta's Father	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I return the typescript of your book. ['Politicians and the Press'] You asked me to tell you whether I thought it was...	Arnold Bennett	Max Beaverbrook	Politicians and the Press	Manuscript: typescript
	1900-1945	I have new books by Maurice Baring, Sylvia Lynd, and W Gerhardi lying unread and they are all coming to dinner on the ...	Arnold Bennett		unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Iâ€™ve finished Baringâ€™s 'Catâ€™s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isnâ€™t so bad, though highly curious in tech...	Arnold Bennett	Maurice Baring	Cat's Cradle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Iâ€™ve finished Baringâ€™s 'Catâ€™s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isnâ€™t so bad, though highly curious in tech...	Arnold Bennett	Stendhal	Promenades dans Rome	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ...	Allan Goadby	Thomas Hood	Faithless Nelly Gray: A Pathetic Ballad	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ...	Allan Goadby		Demon Sleep	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ...	Helen Rawlings	Thomas Moore	Lalla Rookh	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans...	Blanche Ridges	Edwin Arnold	Light of Asia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Charles Kingsley	Hypatia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Voltaire [pseud.]	Tancred	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my read...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already o...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	[n/a]	Psalms	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Tobias Smollett	History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Joseph Blacket	poetry	Unknown
	1800-1849	'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earl...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Anne Isabella Milbanke	'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other verses	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was tak...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Horace		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Glad to get back to my Testament'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer ...	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verse]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Today, much helped by my brown book'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is ...	John Ruskin	Voltaire [pseud.]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.'	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	American Notes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quit...	Arnold Bennett	Maurice Baring	Cat's Cradle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have now read 'Mr Moffat'. If the author is very young I regard it as a pretty sound book. Fundamentally true throu...	Arnold Bennett	Chester Francis Cobb	Mr Moffat	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: "I am a child"?'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thanks for your letter & 'The Polyglots'. I regret not to be able to agree with you as to the latter. I have read i...	Arnold Bennett	William Gerhardi	The Polyglots	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read first vision of Ezekiel.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Then read 64th Isaiah.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold o...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its v...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (John)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Kings)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wro...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Kings)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	BarrÃ¨s is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de BÃ©rÃ©nice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp...	Arnold Bennett	Maurice Barres	Jardin de BÃ©rÃ©nice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Kings)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	BarrÃ¨s is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de BÃ©rÃ©nice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Louis Philippe	Bubu de Montparnasse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ecclesiastes)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	BarrÃ¨s is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de BÃ©rÃ©nice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp...	Arnold Bennett	Roger Martin du Gard	Jean Barois	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Amos)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	BarrÃ¨s is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de BÃ©rÃ©nice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp...	Arnold Bennett	Colette	ChÃ©ri	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read chapter of Heliodorus.'	John Ruskin	Heliodorus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	BarrÃ¨s is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de BÃ©rÃ©nice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp...	Arnold Bennett	Anna Dostoevsky	Dostoevsky portrayed by his wife(?)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marve...	Arnold Bennett	F.A. Hornibrook	The Culture of the Abdomen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marve...	Arnold Bennett		Eat and Grow Thin: The Mahdah Menus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	[ghost story]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Iâ€™ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book...	Arnold Bennett	H.G. Wells	The World of William Clissold	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1900-1945	Iâ€™ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book...	Arnold Bennett	John Galsworthy	The Silver Spoon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Moschele's life]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ecclesiastes)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ...	Arnold Bennett	Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin	The Gentleman from San Francisco	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ...	Arnold Bennett	Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin	The Village	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Manuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin
	1850-1899	'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Si...	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 6...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Munera	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'. Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely impera...	Arnold Bennett	Adelaide Philpotts	Akhnaton	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was'	John Ruskin	Adam Smith	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it'	John Ruskin	Washington Irving	Rip Van Winkle	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Genesis)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	Past and Present	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Marmion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Old Mortality	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturtâ€™s (who generally wrote under the name of Ge...	Arnold Bennett	George Sturt	A Small Boy in the Sixties	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I received your book some time ago, from the publishers. My life is made terrible by my 'Evening Standard' article. ...	Arnold Bennett	Louis Golding	Day of Atonement	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of...	Arnold Bennett	J.B. Priestley	Benighted	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of...	Arnold Bennett	J.B. Priestley	Adam in Moonshine	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from t...	Blanche Ridges	Blanche Ridges	[paper on Augustine Birrell's Essays]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from t...	Blanche Ridges	Augustine Birrell	Essays About Men, Women And Books	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon ...	John Ridges	Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree	Poverty, A Study of Town Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs...	Florence Reynolds	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ...	Blanche Ridges	Blanche Ridges	[paper on Emerson]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyl...	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'	John Ruskin	Allan Kardec [pseud.]	Experimental Spritism	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Numbers)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Mark)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Mark)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'finally concluding in reading a French novel'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[French novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of t...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Deuteronomy)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Expectans expectavi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Mariegola	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'19th Psalm."	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Corinthians)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Matthew)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequen...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Daniel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Terribly difficult bit of Plato'	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Ariadne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, love...	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misle...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Romans)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.'	John Ruskin	George Sand	Marquise de Villemer	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Ezekiel 34th'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Genesis)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my fi...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Corinthians)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Wa...	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	[notes]	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him'	John Ruskin	Horace	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.'	John Ruskin	Cardinal Wiseman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	Deucalion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Job)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.'	John Ruskin	Cuthbert Collingwood	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife aski...	John Ruskin	Machiavelli	Florence	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Hosea XII. 7-9'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Corinthians)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.'	John Ruskin	anon	Darkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new age	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	World	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o...	John Ruskin	Octave Feuillet	La Petite Comtesse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o...	John Ruskin	G. Baker	[Gladstone]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'I up to coffee, reading "Omar Khayyam".'	John Ruskin	Edward Fitzgerald	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.'	John Ruskin	Isaac Taylor	Natural History of Enthusiasm	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Sir T. More in evening'	John Ruskin	Sir Thomas More	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Roma Sotternea	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Pall Mall Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".'	John Ruskin	anon	History of Fair Rosamond	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible de...	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.'	John Ruskin	Froude	Carlyle	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	Vicar of Wakefield, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	Citizen of the World, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Fortunes of Nigel	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Aladdin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his hear...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Chronicles)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Deuteronomy)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Proverbs)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ...	John Ruskin	Horace-BÃ©nÃ©dicte de Saussure	Voyage dans les Alpes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ...	John Ruskin	Andrea Alciati	Emblems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee'	John Ruskin	Maria Edgeworth	Harry and Lucy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Daily Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	French Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two gi...	John Ruskin	Blanche Roosevelt	Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Peter)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[French novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".'	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	As you like it	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Abbot, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well o...	Arnold Bennett	Radclyffe Hall	The Well of Loneliness	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magaz...	Speranza Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Magdalen Walks	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Thoroughgoodâ€™s notice of Wellsâ€™s book was deplorable. ['Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island']. For one thing the ...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship. Can you give me the refere...	Arnold Bennett	Chartres Biron	Pious Opinions	Print: Book
	1900-1945	On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I ...	Arnold Bennett	Radclyffe Hall	The Well of Loneliness	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have read 'To the Pure', in the American edition, and I brought it into an article for the Standard which I wrote an...	Arnold Bennett	Chartres Biron	To the Pure	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a larg...	Arnold Bennett	AndrÃ© Gide	The Vatican Swindle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a larg...	Arnold Bennett	AndrÃ© Gide	The School of Women	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'Lâ€™Ecole des Femmes'. But I canâ€™t.	Arnold Bennett	AndrÃ© Gide	L'Ecole des Femmes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best boo...	Arnold Bennett	Richard Hughes	A High Wind in Jamaica	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best boo...	Arnold Bennett	John Cowper Powys	Wolf Solent	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Reading Berliozâ€™s 'SoirÃ©es de Lâ€™Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually ...	Arnold Bennett	Hector Berlioz	SoirÃ©es de l'Orchestre	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I am returning your Memoirs. Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips h...	Arnold Bennett	William Rothenstein	Men and Memoirs	Manuscript: typescript
	1900-1945	I have now read your story. I return it herewith. I think that it is very well done.	Arnold Bennett	James Hanley	?A Passion before Death	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...	Arnold Bennett	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...	Arnold Bennett	Herman Melville	The Piazza Tales	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...	Arnold Bennett	Herman Melville	Pierre: or the Ambiguities	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...	Arnold Bennett	Herman Melville	Typee	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...	Arnold Bennett	Herman Melville	Omoo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...	Arnold Bennett	George Meredith	Evan Harrington	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...	Arnold Bennett	George Meredith	Beauchamp's Career	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...	Arnold Bennett	Thomas Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A very fine book indeed, recently published, is Siegfried Sassoonâ€™s 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'. I thought th...	Arnold Bennett	Siegfried Sassoon	Memoirs of an Infantry Officer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Maxâ€™s...	Arnold Bennett		Sunday Express	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Maxâ€™...	Arnold Bennett	Bruce Lockhart	Evening Standard	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Maxâ€™s...	Arnold Bennett		Times Literary Supplement	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Maxâ€™s...	Arnold Bennett	W. Somerset Maugham	Cakes and Ale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Maxâ€™s...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	The Virgin and the Gypsy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	The Virgin and the Gypsy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	The Virgin and the Gypsy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	The Woman who Rode Away	Print: Book
	1900-1945	When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and...	Arnold Bennett	Siegfried Sassoon	The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and...	Arnold Bennett	Siegfried Sassoon	The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man	Print: Book
	1900-1945	When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and...	Arnold Bennett	D.H. Lawrence	The Rainbow	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...	Henry Marriage Wallis	George Meredith		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Meredith's works]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...	Henry Marriage Wallis	George Meredith	[two poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ...	John Ridges	Leo Tolstoy	[extract from an unknown work]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Reynolds then read a paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' describing actual experiences of a friend'.	Florence Reynolds	Florence Reynolds	[paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' ]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mr Ridges read a paper on Napoleon & A. Rawlings one entitled an 'Argument for Peace'.'	John Ridges	John Ridges	[paper on Napoleon]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[a biography of Keats]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl...	Helen Rawlings	John Keats	'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl...	Henry Marriage Wallis	John Keats	Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl...	Blanche Ridges	John Keats	'Ode to a Nightingale'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Joseph Blacket	poetry	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Lakers," as Byron called them, were making themselves strongly felt [in 1812], and (at this moment) Southey most...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Robert Southey	Madoc	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Maria Edgeworth	novels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	William Beckford	Vathek	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Inst...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuin...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejud...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Giaour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'	Anne Isabella Milbanke	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lara	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Sismondi	Italian Republics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, a...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	John Dryden	Don Sebastian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"You will know my secret if you will; but if I tell you, you shall be made miserable throughout your life -- I will b...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	William Godwin	Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Erasmus Darwin	article 'on Diseased Volition'	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Leigh Hunt	Rimini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Leigh Hunt	Rimini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Cicero		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supp...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrot...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla...	Lord John Russell	George Gordon Lord Byron	Memoirs	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Giaour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	'Fare thee well' (lyric verses)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	'the Satire'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, ...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Harriet Martineau	Five Years of Youth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic. ...	Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron	George MacDonald	Within and Without	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b...	John Ridges	John Ridges	[paper on works of RL Stevenson]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b...	John Ridges	Robert Louis Stevenson		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist...	Blanche Ridges	Dr Scott	[paper on Shelley]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a...	Henry Marriage Wallis		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a...	Helen Rawlings		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ...	Granville Leveson Gower	George Gordon Lord Byron	Cain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824: 'Here is again the...	Granville Leveson Gower		French newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'.	Henry Marriage Wallis	Samuel Dill	Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.	John Ridges		[Sagas]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.	John Ridges	John Ridges	[paper on the Sagas]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given ...	John Ridges	George Borrow		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given ...	John Ridges	John Ridges	[paper on Works of George Borrow]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	George Borrow	Bible in Spain, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on English ballads]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an...	Henry Marriage Wallis		[either an English ballad or text about ballads]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an...	Elizabeth Ann Smith		[either an English ballad or text about ballads]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ...	John Ridges	John Ridges	[paper on J.M. Barrie]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ...	Florence Reynolds	James Barrie	Peter Pan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ...	John Ridges	James Barrie		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Thomas Hardy	[minor poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Thomas Hardy]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H...	Florence Reynolds	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H...	Sylvanus Reynolds	Thomas Hardy	Under the Greenwood Tree	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C....	Helen Rawlings		[a parody]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C....	Henry Marriage Wallis		[a parody]	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'â€œOn a Cornelian Heart that was broken" - Lord ...	Catherine Austen	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'On a Cornelian Heart which was broken'	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To my Daughter" - Lord Byron'.	Catherine Austen	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'To My Daughter'	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Epitaph In the Church Yard of Brading, in the Is...	Catherine Austen		Epitaph	Print: tombstone
	1800-1849	Monday, 5 December 1825: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club where as usual was a pleasant meeting of from 20 to 25. It...	Henry Mackenzie	Henry Mackenzie	'Essay on Dreams' (extract)	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'â€œBright be the place of thy Soulâ€ Lord Byron...	Catherine Austen	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Bright be the place of thy soul'	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"On happinessâ€ [unattributed], beginning 'True...	Catherine Austen	I. S.	'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth'	Unknown
	1800-1849	Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow L...	anon	Walter Scott	Marmion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow L...	anon	Walter Scott	The Lady of the Lake	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors...	Henry Marriage Wallis		[example of Vers de Societe]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors...	John James Cooper		[example of Vers de Societe]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib...	Helen Rawlings	Philip H. Wicksteed	Four Lectures on Henrik Ibsen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib...	Helen Rawlings	Henrik Ibsen	Peer Gynt	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, beginni...	Catherine Austen	Edward Young	The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"If that high World" - Byron', beginning 'If tha...	Catherine Austen	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'If that high world'	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Ode to the Poppy, By the Honble Mrs Oâ€™Neil', b...	Catherine Austen	Mrs Oâ€™Neil	Ode to the Poppy	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Tell me thou Soul of her I love" - Thomson', be...	Catherine Austen	James Thomson	Ode: Tell me thou Soul of her I love	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To Mary" - Byron', beginning 'RACK'D by the fla...	Catherine Austen	George Gordon, Lord Byron	To Mary	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines entitled â€˜Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks...	Catherine Austen	anon	Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of Lines by a Lady at a Ball', beginning 'So, Sir, y...	Catherine Austen	anon	Lines by a Lady at a Ball	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of â€˜An Epitaph. On the Tombstone erected over the...	Catherine Austen	G Canning	Epitaph On the Tombstone erected over the Marquis of Angleseyâ€™s leg	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Written in the Blank Leaf of a Ladyâ€™s common ...	Catherine Austen	Thomas Little	Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady's Common Place Book	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'â€œThe Well of St Keyneâ€ [unattributed, but b...	Catherine Austen	Robert Southey	The Well of St Keyne	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of â€˜"A Devonshire Lane compared to Marriage" by M...	Catherine Austen	John Marriott	A Devonshire Lane	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from â€œRokesbyâ€ (for Rokeby), begin...	Catherine Austen	Walter Scott	Rokeby	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines lines from the "Bride of Abydos" [Byr...	Catherine Austen	George Gordon, Lord Byron	The Bridge of Abydos	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled an...	Catherine Austen	Thomas Moore	Lalla Rookh	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'The following lines are a translation of a Latin Sonnet written b...	Catherine Austen	Mary Queen of Scots	Sonnet	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'â€œOn the death of a friendâ€ T. Moore.'	Catherine Austen	T Moore	Lines on the death of a dear friend	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'â€œFriendship like love is but a name, Unless to one you stint th...	Catherine Austen	John Gay	The Hare and Many Friends	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'â€œLord Buckingham was once at a dinner where a Mr Grub was reque...	Catherine Austen		Hampshire Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To a Flirt" [unattributed, but the poem is "To ...	Catherine Austen		Hampshire Advertiser	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Epitaph on Viscountess Palmerston written by h...	Catherine Austen	Lord Palmerston	Epitaph on Vicountess Palmerston	Print: tombstone
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines beginning 'Black eyes may dazzle at a ball'.	Catherine Austen	anon	Black eyes and Blue eyes	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "What is Love?â€ by M. S'.	Catherine Austen	M S	What is Love?	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines by LEL beginning 'It is the spiritâ€™s...	Catherine Austen	Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Lâ€™Improvisatrice	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines by Hannah More (â€œMrs H. Moreâ€) beginnin...	Catherine Austen	Hannah More	Sensibility	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'â€œLines by the Princess Ameliaâ€ beginning 'Un...	Catherine Austen	Princess Amelia		Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "My birthday" T Moore' beginning '"My Birthdayâ€...	Catherine Austen	Thomas Moore	My Birthday	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'By Mr B Sheridan Esq to his Wife'.	Catherine Austen	Sheridan	[verses to his wife]	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of â€œFriendshipâ€ by the Revd Francis Murray.	Catherine Austen	Rev. Francis Murray	Friendship	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'lament of the Single Ladies of Southampton' 'fro...	Catherine Austen		Southampton Newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of â€To the Butterflyâ€ by Samuel Rogers.	Catherine Austen	Samuel Rogers	To the Butterfly	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Verses by R. B. Sheridan Esq'	Catherine Austen	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Verses	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "On Sir Walter Scott" by LEL.	Catherine Austen	Letitia Elizabeth Landon	On Sir Walter Scott	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of â€œThey may talk of scenes that are bright and fa...	Catherine Austen	Thomas Haynes Bailey	'They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair'	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'â€œIn Happiness Hoursâ€ By Thos Haynes Bailey Esq'	Catherine Austen	Thomas Haynes Bailey	'In Happiness Hours'	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'â€œA Search after Happiness H. Moreâ€ beginning...	Catherine Austen	Hannah More	A Search after Happiness	Unknown
	1800-1849	Thursday, 28 June 1827: 'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napol...	anon	Walter Scott	Life of Napoleon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt...	John James Cooper	John James Cooper	[Essay on life and work of Goldwin Smith]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt...	John James Cooper	Goldwin Smith		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his...	Henry Marriage Wallis	George Bernard Shaw	Doctor's Dilemma, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on historical setting of Browning's 'Sordello']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...	Ernest E. Unwin	Henry Marriage Wallis	[prefatory notes to Browning's 'Sordello']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Robert Browning	Sordello	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the...	Ernest E. Unwin	[a member of the XII Book Club]	[essay on Browning]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[a member of the XII Book Club]	[essay on Browning]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	John James Cooper	John James Cooper	[Paper on Robert Bridges]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Paper on John Masefield]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	Ernest E. Unwin	John Masefield		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	John James Cooper	Robert Bridges		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge ...	Ernest E. Unwin	ernest E. Unwin	[paper on neo-Irish theatre]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Bronte		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Bronte		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t...	Helen Rawlings	Bronte		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t...	Janet Rawlings	Bronte		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Wednesday, 25 March 1829: 'Dined. Heard Anne reading a paper of anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson and so to bed.'	Anne Scott		'anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson [ie Ewan Macpherson of Cluny]'	Unknown
	1800-1849	Saturday, 18 April 1829: 'In the evening I heard Anne read Mr. Peel's excellent bill on the police of the Metropoli...	Anne Scott		Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary Bill for metropolitan police force	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Thursday, 28 May 1829: 'Mr. MacIntosh Mackay breakfasted and inspected my curious MS. which Dr. Brindley [sic for B...	MacIntosh Mackay		The Book of Rights	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l...	Henry Marriage Wallis		[works by and about Tolstoy]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l...	Reginald Robson		[works by and about Tolstoy]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R...	Ernest E. Unwin	Anatole France	Thais	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of the last two meetings were read'.	Ernest Unwin	Alfred Rawlings	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con...	John J. Cooper	John J. Cooper	[paper on Oliver Wendell Holmes]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con...	John J. Cooper	Oliver Wendell Holmes	'Latter Day Warnings'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con...	Reginald Robson	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Professor at the Breakfast Table, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con...	Reginald Robson	Reginald Robson	[paper on Holmes's 'the Professor at the Breakfast Table']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read'.	Ernest Unwin	Ernest Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read'	Ernest Unwin	Ernest Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[Paper on A.R. Wallace's scientific writings]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[Paper on A.R. Wallace's psychical writings]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Alfred Russel Wallace	[psychical writings]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Alfred Russel Wallace	[scientific writings]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest Unwin	Ernest Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...	Helen Rawlings	Geoffrey Chaucer	General Prologue	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...	Ernest E. Unwin	Geoffrey Chaucer	General Prologue	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...	Rosamund Wallis	Geoffrey Chaucer	General Prologue	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo...	Henry Marriage Wallis	William Makepeace Thackeray	Roundabout Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest Unwin	Ernest Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre...	Katherine Evans	Rabindranath Tagore	Crescent Moon, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 September 1834: 'Our host at the inn at Avignon, a poe...	Granville Leveson Gower	?Pierson		Unknown
	1800-1849	Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five...	Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam		'comic annual'	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five...	Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam	Mary Russell Mitford	Belford Regis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Ernest E. Unwin	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on life and works of Richard Jefferies]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Ernest E. Unwin	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Rosamund Wallis	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The secretary read the following letter from John James Cooper'. [the letter, of resignation from the club, is pasted...	Ernest E. Unwin	John James Cooper	[letter of resignation from XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...	Helen Rawlings	Miguel de Cervantes		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...	Katherine Evans	Miguel de Cervantes		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...	Reginald Robson	Miguel de Cervantes		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary read the following poem which he had received from J.J. Cooper in reply to his letter.' [the poem is pa...	Ernest E. Unwin	John James Cooper	[poem on the XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Newbolt	Vitai Lampada	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Helen Rawlings	Rupert Brooke		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Katherine Evans	Rupert Brooke		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Reginald Robson	Rupert Brooke		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Reginald Robson	Rupert Brooke		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Reginald Robson	Reginald Robson	[paper on Rupert Brooke]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Meredith]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	George Meredith		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...	Katherine Evans	George Meredith	Richard Feverel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr...	Ernest E. Unwin		[article in 'Scribners' by or about Galsworthy]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr...	Rosamund Wallis	John Galsworthy	Freelands, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr...	Helen Rawlings	John Galsworthy	Fraternity	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr...	Ernest E. Unwin	John Galsworthy		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 7 December 1839: 'Georgy [daughter] read me a sermon of ...	Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower		sermon	Unknown
	1800-1849	Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843: 'We read about Ireland with great...	Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower	Mr Sheil	speech	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	William Barnes	'What Dick and I did'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of...	Florence E. Reynolds	William Barnes	'Ellen Brine of Allenburn'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Lewis Carroll [pseud.]		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Print: BookManuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Print: BookManuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...	Reginald Robson	Reginald Robson	[paper on Dostoevsky]	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...	Ernest E. Unwin	Fyodor Dostoevsky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...	Katherine Evans	Fyodor Dostoevsky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...	Reginald Robson	Fyodor Dostoevsky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Mark Twain		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...	Katherine Evans	Mark Twain		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Mark Twain		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...	Reginald Robson	Mark Twain		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...	Reginald Robson	Charles Stansfield	[essay on Twain]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Minutes read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta...	Helen Rawlings		[material by or about Wordsworth]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta...	Elizabeth Ann Smith		[material by or about Wordsworth]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary read a letter which A. Rawlings had received from Mudies Libr. The question of using Mudies was discuss...	Ernest E. Unwin		[letter from Mudies library]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'William Morris - Craftsman - Socialist was the subject of the meeting. The Secretary read a paper dealing with the ma...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on life of William Morris]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers...	Henry Marriage Wallis	William Morris		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers...	Katherine Evans	William Morris	Earthly Paradise, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers...	Reginald Robson	William Morris	Earthly Paradise, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers...	Henry Marriage Wallis	William Morris	Sigurd the Volsung	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other...	Helen Rawlings	Francis Bret Harte	'Luck of Roaring Camp, The'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other...	Ernest E. Unwin	Francis Bret Harte	[short poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'.	Ernest E. Unwin	Pattie Stansfield	[letter to the XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Gilbert Murray]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Gilbert Murray	Rise of the Greek Epic, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes...	Helen Rawlings	Gilbert Murray	Rise of the Greek Epic, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
		'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo...	Ernest E. Unwin	Francis William Bain	'Bubbles of the Foam'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo...	Rosamund Wallis	Francis William Bain	'Ashes of a God'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo...	Florence Reynolds	Francis William Bain	'Digit of the Moon'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	George Gissing	Odd Women, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on Gissing]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ...	Ernest E. Unwin	George Gissing		Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow (1847): '[William Gifford] begged me to name any book to make choic...	John Barrow	De Guignes	History of the Dutch Embassy to China	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Corsair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the bo...	John Murray	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From recollections of John Murray junior: 'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	poems	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[paper on child study]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva...	Elizabeth Ann Smith		Spectator, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'A letter from Miss Ethel C. Stevens offering to entertain the Book Club for the Sept meeting was read'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ethel C. Stevens	[letter to XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[paper on 'Mankind in the Making' by Wells]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Wells's 'Romances']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...	Reginald Robson	Herbert George Wells	[a short story]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Herbert George Wells	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Herbert George Wells	Mankind in the Making	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Murray to his wife, 15 August 1814: 'I have got [for publication] at last Mr. Eagle's "Journal of Penrose, the...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Eagle	Journal of Penrose, the Seaman	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815: 'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ...	George Gordon Lord Byron	C. R. Maturin	Bertram	Unknown
	1800-1849	John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815: 'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ...	The Hon. George Lamb	C. R. Maturin	Bertram	Unknown
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1816): 'I send you seven stories [for 'Stories for Children from the History of ...	John Murray	John Wilson Croker	Stories for Children from the History of England (extracts)	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Murray to Lord Byron (December 1815): 'I tore open the packet you sent me, and have found in it a Pearl. It is...	John Murray	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Siege of Corinth / Parisina	Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Anne Isabella, Lady Byron
	1800-1849	John Murray to Byron, 4 January 1816: 'Nothing can be more interestingly framed and more interestingly told than th...	John Murray	George Gordon Lord Byron	Parisina	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Dr John Polidori, Byron's secretary, to John Murray, 10 July 1816: 'Since it has given you hopes of entering well i...	John Polidori	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Prisoner of Chillon	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra...	John Hookham Frere	George Gordon Lord Byron	Sketch from Private Life	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo...	John Hookham Frere	George Gordon Lord Byron	Monody [on Sheridan]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interest...	Lady Caroline Lamb	?Thomas ?Holcroft	Life [?of Thomas Holcroft]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interest...	Lady Caroline Lamb		'Lady Calantha Limb'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'They say a black mare of mine (not the one I ride, but a beautiful one) ...	Lady Caroline Lamb		The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, from Venice, 7 December 1817: 'Your new acquisition is a very fine finish to the ...	John Cam Hobhouse	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Murray to Byron, 16 June 1818: 'Mr. Frere is at length satisfied that you are the author of "Beppo." He had no...	John Hookham Frere	George Gordon Lord Byron	Beppo	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: "You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon Lord Byron	Don Juan, Cantos I and II	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, 22 October 1821, prior to publications of Byron's plays Cain, The Two Foscari, and S...	John Cam Hobhouse	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Corsair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr. Hobhouse wrote that [Sardanapalus] interested him very deeply, though it might be thought fantastical and unnatur...	John Cam Hobhouse	George Gordon Lord Byron	Sardanapalus	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with att...	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Walter Scott	Life of Napoleon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On the whole, our study and love of German Literature seems to be rapidly progressive: in my time, that is, within th...	British Population (general)		[German literature]	Print: BookUnknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Herbert George Wells		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu...	Reginald Robson	Reginald Robson	[paper on Conrad]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu...	Florence Reynolds	Joseph Conrad	Almayer's Folly	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu...	Helen Rawlings	Joseph Conrad	Typhoon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu...	Reginald Robson	Joseph Conrad		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Robert Louis Stevenson	'Christmas at Sea'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Robert Louis Stevenson	'Tropic Rain'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Robert Louis Stevenson	'Vagabond'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...	Ernest E. Unwin	Robert Louis Stevenson	Travels with a Donkey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Robert Louis Stevenson	Master of Ballantrae, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on psychic phenomena]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[paper on the spirit world]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. ...	Reginald Robson	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on an altar stone found near Carthage]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. ...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[paper on the mind and its training]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[essay on 'The Humours of Man']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper introducing Balzac]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Honore de Balzac	Wild Ass's Skin, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...	Rosamund Wallis	Honore de Balzac	Christ in Flanders	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...	Reginald Robson	Reginald Robson	[essay on Keats' life]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[essay on Keats]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...	Katherine Evans	John Keats		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...	Henry Marriage Wallis	John Keats		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & confirmed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on the Comic]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary read 'An Open Letter' to the XII Book Club. It was read without discussion - the discussion postponed u...	Ernest E. Unwin	[a member of the XII book Club]	[open letter to the XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans rea...	Katherine Edwards	[a member of the XII Book Club]	[paper entitled 'An English Lumber Camp']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans rea...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	[a member of the XII Book Club]	[paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans rea...	Ernest E. Unwin	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Leslie's 'The End of a Chapter']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans rea...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Algernon Blackwood	Garden of Survival, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans rea...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Shane Leslie	End of a Chapter, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of th...	Lord John Russell	George Gordon Lord Byron	Memoirs	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...	John Hookham Frere	Walter Scott	Tales of My Landlord	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...	Henry Hallam	Walter Scott	Tales of My Landlord	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Barrow to John Murray, 1 September 1830: 'I sat up last night over Mr. Macleod's narrative till I had nearly g...	John Barrow	Macleod	Voyage of the Alceste to China	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	John Barrow	Review of Dupin, On the Navy of England and France	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	Francis Cohen	'Astrology and Alchemy'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	T. Mitchell	Review of Dalzell, Lectures on the Ancient Greeks	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	Col. Matthews	'article on Hazlitt'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	Nassau senior	'[article] on the Scotch novels'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1821: 'Ramsgate is still empty and dull; our good weather fled with the ...	John Wilson Croker		court news	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand trave...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Giovanni Belzoni	Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	William Lamb to John Murray, 20 December 1822: 'The incongruity of, and objections to, the story of "Ada Reis" can ...	The Hon. William Lamb	Lady Caroline Lamb	Ada Reis	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (May 1823 [sic]): 'Do tell Captain Lyon that I, and others far better than I am, ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Captain Lyon	Private Journal during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 1824 [sic]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'.	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Hardy's life and work]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Thomas Hardy	'Three Travellers, The'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...	Rosamund Wallis	Thomas Hardy	Mayor of Casterbridge, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...	Ernest E. Unwin	Laurence Binyon	[criticism of Hardy]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Thomas Hardy		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Edmund Gosse	Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Edmund Gosse	[literary criticism]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu...	Ernest E. Unwin	Edmund Gosse	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on Miracle and Morality plays]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so...	Ernest E. Unwin	anon.	York Miracle Cycle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...	John Wilson Croker	Washington Irving	Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...	John Wilson Croker	Washington Irving	Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...	John Wilson Croker	Washington Irving	'Knickerbocker'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...	John Wilson Croker	Washington Irving	The American Dutchmen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828: 'I return, having read through, the first volume of "Horace Walpole'...	John Wilson Croker	Horace Walpole	'Letters to Mr Mason' vol 1	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm,...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Thomas Moore	Life of Byron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'I have sat up al...	Colonel D'Aguilar	Thomas Moore	Life of Byron (vol 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'No doubt there are longeu...	John Wilson Croker	Thomas Moore	Life of Byron (vol 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m...	John Wilson Croker	Leigh Hunt	The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m...	John Wilson Croker	Leigh Hunt	Rimini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sir Francis Knight to John Murray (1839): 'I was glad [...] to hear the child's voice crying in the Times this morn...	Francis Head		Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 5 March 1839: 'What is most extraordinary is the article in my favour which late...	Francis Head		Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835: 'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have b...	Sir Alexander Burnes	Sir John MacNeill	'England, France, Russia, and Turkey'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832: 'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a co...	Joanna Baillie	Frances Kemble	Francis the First	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832: 'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a co...	Joanna Baillie		reviews of Frances Kemble, Francis the First	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble to John Murray (1832): 'The article in the Quarterly on my "Francis the First," more than satisfied me...	Fanny Kemble	Milman	Review of Fanny Kemble, Francis the First	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835: 'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen ...	Sir Francis B. Head	Fanny Kemble Butler	Journal [of residence in America]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Fanny Kemble Butler to John Murray, 26 March 1836: 'Surely Captain Marryat is not a man to be trifled with; he don'...	Fanny Kemble Butler	Captain Marryat		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 November 1837: 'I have received "Don Juan" and the October Quarterly [Review]. .....	Caroline Norton	George Gordon Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 March 1840: 'Blessed be he [sic] who lately wrote "Cecil" (though it be but a nov...	Caroline Norton	Catherine Gore	Cecil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Caroline Norton to John Murray, 31 October 1840: 'I ought to have thanked you from Ventnor, instead of waiting till...	Caroline Norton	H. Nelson Coleridge	'Modern English Poetesses'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of the last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Ben Jonson	[short poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo...	Rosamund Wallis	Ben Jonson	Tale of a Tub, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sir Francis Head to John Murray, 26 June 1842: 'My son will be quite proud at receiving the [italics]first[end ital...	Sir Francis Head		The Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Jean Froissart	Chronicles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	Florence Reynolds		'Wedding Presents'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	William Henry Smith	Rudyard Kipling	'How the Camel got his Hump'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	Rosamund Wallis	A.A. Milne	'Man of the Evening, The'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	Sylvanus Reynolds		Arms of Wipplecrack	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	Henry Marriage Wallis	E.V. Lucas	Joints in the Armour	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	Reginald Robson	Reginald Robson	'Bad Morality & Bad art'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Browning's The Ring & the Book]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...	Reginald Robson	Robert Browning	Ring and the Book, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...	Katherine Evans	Robert Browning	Ring and the Book, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Robert Browning	Ring and the Book, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte...	Rosamund Wallis	William Henry Hudson	Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte...	Ernest E. Unwin	William Henry Hudson	Book of a Naturalist, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte...	Ernest E. Unwin	William Henry Hudson	[naturalist writing]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last two meetings read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea...	Reginald Robson	Fanny Burney	[from works or diary]	Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole
	1900-1945	'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea...	Ernest E. Unwin	Fanny Burney	[from works or diary]	Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Thomas Love Peacock]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...	Ernest E. Unwin	Thomas Love Peacock	Nightmare Abbey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Thomas Love Peacock		Print: Book
	1850-1899	14 July 1878: 'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gor...	Enid Layard	Ouida	Friendship	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a ...	Francis Warrington Dawson	Francis Warrington Dawson	The Sin	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...	Reginald Robson	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read and signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Maurice Hewlett	Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Maurice Hewlett	Queen's Quair Or The Six Years' Tragedy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Maurice Hewlett	Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay , The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on History of Berkshire]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch...	Rosamund Wallis	Thomas of Reading	[tale about murders in Reading]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds		'Berkshire Lady, A'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening concerned Prehistoric Man & Woman. H.M. Wallis read a paper entitled 'The Piltdown Woman'. Th...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Piltdown Woman]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b...	Ernest E. Unwin	Thomas de Quincey	Recollections of Charles Lamb	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b...	Constance Wallis	Thomas de Quincey	Suspiria de Profundis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b...	Florence Reynolds	Thomas de Quincey		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b...	Helen Rawlings	Celia Cole	[paper on de Quincey]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th...	Ernest E. Unwin	Oliver Goldsmith	Good-natured Man, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th...	Ernest E. Unwin	Oliver Goldsmith	She Stoops to Conquer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read and signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Katherine Evans	A.C Curtis	Small Garden Useful, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Rosamund Wallis		My Garden, a parody	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a...	Ernest E. Unwin	Samuel Pepys	Diary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a...	Reginald Robson	Samuel Pepys	Diary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a...	Rosamund Wallis	Samuel Pepys	Diary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[essay on Pepys]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on ballads]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...	Rosamund Wallis		[readings from ballads]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...	Rosamund Wallis		Thomas the Rhymer	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...	Reginald Robson		Sir Patrick Spens	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...	Henry Marriage Wallis		Helen of Kirconnel	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...	Helen Rawlings		Undaunted Mary	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....	Ernest E. Unwin	James Boswell	Life of Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....	Reginald Robson	James Boswell	Life of Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....	Henry Marriage Wallis	James Boswell	Life of Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Laurence Housman]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman...	Reginald Robson	Reginald Robson	[paper on Housman's 'New Child's Guide to Knowledge']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Laurence Housman	Englishwoman's Love-letters, An	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman...	Reginald Robson	Laurence Housman	New Child's Guide to Knowledge	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
		'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
		'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the...	Ernest E. Unwin	Harold Begbie	[book of 'backstairs biographies']	Print: Book
		'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the...	Ernest E. Unwin	L.P. Jacks	'Macbeth and Bangus upon the blasted heath'	Print: Book
		'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the...	Ernest E. Unwin	L.P. Jacks	['Snarley Bob' tales]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entire...	St. John Ervine	Vera Brittain	Testament of Youth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of...	Francis Pollard	Anatole France	La Reine Pedauque	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of...	Reginald Robson	Anatole France	Penguin Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of...	Katherine Evans	Anatole France	Garden of Epicures, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of...	Helen Rawlings	Anatole France	Life of Joan of Arc, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Henry Marriage Wallis	John Masefield	Gallipoli
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Florence Reynolds	John Masefield	'Tewkesbury Road'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Florence Reynolds	John Masefield	'Beauty'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Florence Reynolds	John Masefield	'I Went into the Fields'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Florence Reynolds	John Masefield	'Laugh and be Merry'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Florence Reynolds	John Masefield	'By a Bierside'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...	Reginald Robson	Arthur Quiller-Couch	'Once aboard the lugger'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Arthur Quiller-Couch	[a short story]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Arthur Quiller-Couch	[a poem]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Arthur Quiller-Couch		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[following journal entry for 19 February 1889] 'That evening [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] youngest daughter, Blanch...	Blanche Countess of Bessborough	Henry Layard	article on Lord Beaconsfield	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she...	Florence E. Reynolds	George Sand	Countess of Rudolfstadt, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Sabine Baring-Gould	John Herring	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart...	Francis Pollard	Sabine Baring-Gould	Strange Survivals and Superstitions	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Sabine Baring-Gould		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	Sabine Baring-Gould		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Reginald Robson	Anthony Trollope	Warden, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Francis Pollard	Anthony Trollope	Three Clerks, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Francis Pollard	Francis Pollard	[essay on Trollope]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[essay on Trollope, with extracts from his works]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Henry Marriage Wallis	Anthony Trollope		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Francis Pollard	Anthony Trollope		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d...	Elizabeth Ann Smith	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...	Katherine Evans	Mark Rutherford [pseud.]	Series of Character Sketches	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...	Florence Reynolds	Mark Rutherford [pseud.]	Catharine Furze	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...	Constance Burrow	Mark Rutherford [pseud.]	Mark Rutherford's Deliverance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...	Reginald Robson	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Isles of Greece, The'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...	Francis Pollard	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Giaour, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...	Reginald Robson	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her...	Katherine Evans	Thomas de Quincey	Joan of Arc	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att...	Helen Rawlings	William de Morgan	Joseph Vance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att...	Reginald Robson	William de Morgan	Alice for Short	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att...	Francis Pollard	William de Morgan	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic...	Francis Pollard	Walt Whitman		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic...	Reginald Robson	Walt Whitman		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o...	Rosamund Wallis	Rosamund Wallis	[paper on Anglo-India and Forster]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o...	Francis Pollard	Francis Pollard	[paper on Forster's 'A Passage to India']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o...	Francis Pollard	Edward Morgan Forster	Passage to India, A	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o...	Rosamund Wallis	Edward Morgan Forster	Passage to India, A	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo...	Katherine Evans	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ...	Reginald Robson	Hugh Walpole	Cathedral, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan...	Katherine Evans	William Blake		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan...	Francis Pollard		[catalogue of Blake's canterbury Pilgrims pictures]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow...	Katherine Evans	Elizabeth Gaskell	Life of Charlotte Bronte, The	Print: Book
	1600-1699 1700-1799	Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquai...	anon	Aphra Behn	[?]Oroonoko	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquai...	anon	Aphra Behn	[?]Oroonoko	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to finish it. Sir Joshua R...	Edmund Burke	Frances Burney	Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In 1782 "Cecilia" [...] made its appearance [...] Burke called it an extraordinary performance, and the public were...	Edmund Burke	Frances Burney	Cecilia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, ...	Edmund Burke	Ann Radcliffe	novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, ...	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Ann Radcliffe	novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on terms of close intimacy...	John Philip Kemble			Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, cl...	Jane Austen	Cowper		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, cl...	Jane Austen	Samuel Johnson	Prose writings	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, cl...	Jane Austen	Henry Fielding		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, cl...	Jane Austen	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient docility, and read h...	Jane Austen	Jane Austen	fiction writings	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments...	Aaron Hill	John Milton	Prose writings	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 14 April 1737: 'I thank you for the pleasure I have received from Leonidas, which ...	Aaron Hill		Leonidas	Unknown
	1700-1799	Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1738: 'I will carefully and speedily return the folio with which you so kin...	Aaron Hill		'folio'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will b...	Aaron Hill	Samuel Richardson	Pamela	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740: 'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriende...	Aaron Hill	Samuel Richardson	Pamela	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1741: 'I am so hid among green leaves and blossoms, that I read or see no...	Aaron Hill		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741: 'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets o...	Aaron Hill	Samuel Richardson	Pamela (two sheets from part II)	Unknown
	1700-1799	Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry:...	anon		'lines to the earl of Oxford'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 10 December 1745: 'Caroline [?wife] begs her best requests to Mrs Richardson and...	Caroline [?Young]	Hervey	Meditations [?Among the Tombs]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748: 'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fieldi...	J[?ane] Collier	Sarah Fielding	The Governess	Print: Unknown, In proof
	1700-1799	[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1749: 'I return you my thanks for the play you sent me; and by wha...	J[?ane] Collier		'play'	Unknown
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 January 1751: 'I was sorry the other day to see a Rambler (though a good o...	Catherine Talbot	[N/A]	Rambler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751: 'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age...	Catherine Talbot	Fielding	[?The] Patriot	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Ramble...	Catherine Talbot	Samuel Richardson	'Rambler' [essay]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751: 'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on t...	Catherine Talbot		The Idler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly...	Catherine Talbot	Duc de Sully	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know...	Catherine Talbot	Maximilien de Bethune de Sully	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751: 'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would...	Catherine Talbot	Bernard de Montfaucon	French Antiquities	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, d...	Catherine Talbot	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Unknown
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'I want to talk to you of Fontanelle's Plays, have you seen...	Catherine Talbot	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle	Plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus...	Catherine Talbot	Charlotte Lennox	The Female Quixote	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus...	Martin Benson	Henry Fielding	Amelia (volumes 1 and 2)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'I thank you for your offer of sending me Miss Mulso's verses,...	Catherine Talbot	Hester Mulso	verses	Unknown
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I ...	Catherine Talbot		'Arlequin'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I ...	Catherine Talbot		'Princess Mesirida'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I ...	Catherine Talbot	Con. [Teresia Constantia] Phillips	An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I ...	Catherine Talbot	William Chaigneau	The History of Jack Connor	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752]: 'I never answered you about the authoress of certain Miscellan...	Catherine Talbot	Mary Jones	Miscellanies in Prose and Verse	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752: 'Did I ever tell you I was reading Madame de Maintenon's Le...	Catherine Talbot	FranÃ§oise d'AubignÃ© de Maintenon	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one ...	Catherine Talbot	Elizabeth Singer Rowe		Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one ...	Catherine Talbot		'Vision'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754: 'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des ...	anon	Louis-Jean LÃ©vesque de Pouilly	Theorie des sentimens agrÃ©ables	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754: '"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago,...	Catherine Talbot	Louis-Jean LÃ©vesque de Pouilly	Theorie des sentimens agreables	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no ...	Catherine Talbot	Carlo Maria Maggi	Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'	Unknown
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively pape...	Catherine Talbot	Richard Owen Cambridge	papers (i.e. essays)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754: 'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of mora...	Catherine Talbot	David Fordyce	Elements of Moral Philosophy	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'I was going one day to have writ to you in a hurry to ask ...	Catherine Talbot	Anthony Ashley Cooper	Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions, [volume 1].	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much ou...	Catherine Talbot	Sarah Fielding	The Cry	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 December 1754: 'I cannot help being so ungenteel as to send you the good w...	Catherine Talbot		The World, No. CIV	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he ha...	Catherine Talbot		'volumes of Stoic philosophy'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He did not mention that as a prisoner he himself had written an autobiography, of which H. N. Brailsford was to comme...	Henry Noel Brailsford	Jawaharlal Nehru	Towards Freedom	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'K.S. Evans assisted [her husband's discussion of superstition] by reading from Walter Raymond's "The Book of Simple D...	Katherine Evans	Walter Raymond	The Book of Simple Delights	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...	Katherine Evans	Robert Louis Stevenson	[letters]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...	Francis Pollard	George Bernard Shaw	[letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...	Francis Pollard	James Matthew Barrie	[letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ...	Francis Pollard	Charles Reade	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'There is a whole shoal of new books. The Centaur, well wo...	Catherine Talbot		Man: A Paper for Ennobling the Species	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, ...	anon	Thomas Newton	Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'Have you seen the reflections, maxims, and characters moral...	Catherine Talbot	Fulke Greville	Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:] 'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's...	Catherine Talbot	Thomas Browne	Christian Morals	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:] 'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share...	Catherine Talbot	Sarah Fielding	The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758] following stay in London with Carter:] 'I have looked in Dodsley, to s...	Catherine Talbot	Robert Dodsley	The Ladies' Memorandum Book	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca...	Catherine Talbot	Ben Jonson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca...	Catherine Talbot	Pierre de Marivaux	Le Spectateur Francois	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during convalescence from illness, 1 January 1759:] 'I have run over a heap ...	Catherine Talbot		'ridiculous French books'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 November 1759:] 'I thank you for the Barrow, and in idle hours, for the Fr...	Catherine Talbot		'French plays'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of...	Katherine Evans	Colin D. B. Ellis		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of...	Reginald Robson	J. C. Squires	[poem possibly entitled 'Birds']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of...	Francis Pollard	Siegfried Sassoon	[poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Rawlings read from Polo's description of the Great Khan.'	Helen Rawlings	Marco Polo	Travels of Marco Polo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede...	Rosamund Wallis	William Temple	[on gardens]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th...	Katherine S. Evans	John Galsworthy	Indian Summer of a Forsyte	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th...	Janet Rawlings	John Galsworthy	In Chancery	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th...	Rosamund Wallis	John Galsworthy	Awakening	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th...	Francis Pollard	John Galsworthy	To Let	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ...	Francis Pollard	Leo Tolstoy	[essay on the Russian Famine]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro...	Katherine Evans	Voltaire [pseud.]	Letters on England	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro...	Francis Pollard	Voltaire [pseud.]		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books...	Francis Pollard	Arnold Bennett	[article on Hardy]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books...	Reginald Robson	Thomas Hardy	Far from the Madding Crowd	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books...	Helen Rawlings	Thomas Hardy	Return of the Native, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books...	Muriel Bowman Smith	Thomas Hardy	Mayor of Casterbridge, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 6 January 1760, following illness:] 'Now I am well [...] as my mornings are ...	Catherine Talbot	Epictetus	Ode	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian...	Catherine Talbot	Euripides	The Phoenician Women	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian...	Catherine Talbot	Euripides	Medea	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian...	Catherine Talbot	Euripides	Orestes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian...	Catherine Talbot	Euripides	Hecuba	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 April 1760:] 'As you was, upon the whole, I believe, very determined to g...	Catherine Talbot	Roger Boyle	Parthenissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 May 1760:] 'To-day I have been reading with due wrath and abomination "Le ...	Catherine Talbot	King Frederick of Prussia	Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans-Souci	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 September 1760:] 'I have picked up a very strange [book], but which, with...	Catherine Talbot	Daniel Defoe	The Family Instructor	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:] 'Did you ever chance to see Orinda's Letters? They are rather ...	Catherine Talbot	Katherine Phillips	Letters (as 'Orinda')	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:] 'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which yo...	Catherine Talbot	Jonas Hanway	'two volumes'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:] 'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to M...	Catherine Talbot	Salomon Gessner	La Mort d'Abel	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! ...	Catherine Talbot	George Lord Lyttelton	The Vision	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the nobl...	Catherine Talbot	Edward Young		Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ...	Catherine Talbot	Carlo Maggi	'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ...	Catherine Talbot	Carlo Maggi	Letters to Rosa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read...	Catherine Talbot	Carlo Maggi	'the Death of Adam'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1763:] 'I am curious to know whether you have at Spa (as at all plac...	Catherine Talbot	Frances Brooke	The History of Lady Julia Mandeville	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 September 1763:] 'The sickliness of the season has a little affected us h...	Catherine Talbot	Epictetus		Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present ...	Catherine Talbot		treatise 'sur la gaiete'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present ...	Catherine Talbot	John Jortin	Life of Erasmus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for en...	Catherine Talbot	?Elizabeth ?Carter	sonnet	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have been reading French books lately that represent u...	Catherine Talbot		'French books'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'Shall I send your subscription copy of the Messiah, or k...	Catherine Talbot	Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	Messiah	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dial...	Catherine Talbot	Edward Kimber	Maria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of rank and fortune, and of some of her friends	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:] 'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord He...	Catherine Talbot	Horace Walpole	Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1765:] 'The book I am happiest in reading at present, is a volume of...	Catherine Talbot	Robert Leighton	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:] 'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at pr...	Catherine Talbot	Robert Leighton	Works including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea...	Catherine Talbot	?Thomas Simon ?Gueullette	?Peruvian Tales (vol 3)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea...	Catherine Talbot	Charles Morrell	The Tales of the Genii	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calcula...	Catherine Talbot	?Jean ?de la Chapelle	Zaide	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I...	Catherine Talbot	James Fordyce	Sermons to Young Women	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:] 'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish s...	Catherine Talbot	Pedro de Ribadeneira	?Flos Sanctorum	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 September 1766:] 'Pray ask Mrs Montagu if she hears any thing in Newcastl...	Catherine Talbot		Account of 'Mrs Wilson's' visit to New York	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:] 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, th...	Catherine Talbot	Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Hariri	Six assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of learned men among the Arabians	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767: 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that...	Catherine Talbot	Bodmer Johann Jakob	Noah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In twelve books.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, tha...	Catherine Talbot	Gautier de Costes de la Calprenède	Pharamond; or the History of France	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, tha...	Catherine Talbot	Rene Aubert de Vertot	Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 July 1768, following expressions of concern over illness of Talbot's stepfat...	anon		report of illness of Archbishop of Canterbury	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 13 November 1769:] 'My sister and all her family are with me at present, amon...	anon			Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:] 'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give...	anon	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from...	Anne Donnellan	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Unknown
	1700-1799	[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seem...	Anne Donnellan		'Psalms'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antago...	Anne Donnellan	Thomas Edwards	Canons of Criticism	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have admired Clarissa, and wept with her. I have loved Miss...	Anne Donnellan	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 11 February 1752: 'Who the author of Betsy Thoughtless is, I don't know, but h...	Anne Donnellan	Eliza Haywood	The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752: 'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading ...	Anne Donnellan	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757: 'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdale...	Frances Sheridan	unknown	History of the Magdalens (extracts)	Unknown
	1900-1945	'During the interval of waiting, my mind dwelt on the evidences of his mental development during recent months; the ma...	John Catlin	William Blake	Book of Urizen	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:] 'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in S...	anon	Elizabeth Gaskell	Life of Charlotte Bronte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:] 'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certai...	Ellen Nussey	Walter Scott	Kenilworth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:...	Branwell Bronte	James Hogg		Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:...	Branwell Bronte		Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842: 'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lat...	anon	Branwell Bronte		Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	[George Henry Lewes to Elizabeth Gaskell:] 'When Jane Eyre first appeared, the publishers courteously sent me a cop...	George Henry Lewes	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I...	Sir John Herschel	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I...	James Henry Leigh Hunt	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to Charlotte Bronte's wi...	Anon	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on t...	Cyril Lionel Robert James	John Locke		Manuscript: Manuscript notebook.
	1900-1945	'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again......	Cyril Lionel Robert James	Edmond Rostand	Cyrano de Bergerac	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twel...	Cyril Lionel Robert James	Luigi Pirandello	Six Characters in Search of an Author	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slo...	Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan	Alexander Smith	"Barbara"	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ...	Sylvanus Reynolds	anon	Arden of Faversham
	1900-1945	The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under Thos. C Elliot...	Reginald H. Robson	Christopher Marlowe	Doctor Faustus	Unknown
	1900-1945	'We are to make roads for the next few days. Out occasionally on work parties. Those officers not on duty all stayed i...	Robert Lindsay Mackay			Unknown
	1900-1945	'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I ...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my sp...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Out training signallers and observers. The former very efficient, the latter the very reverse. We are to move on the ...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Gene Stratton-Porter	Michael O'Halloran: A Novel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs...	Reginald H. Robson	Ben Jonson	Epicoene, or the Silent Woman	Unknown
	1900-1945	'I've read so many descriptions in newspapers of the ruin and desolation caused in this war. Famous literary men have ...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Gilbert Frankau		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Sunday 12th. August. Church parade. New minister. Rather enjoyed the sermon. Easy afternoon. Finished Vol. 1 of the B...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that th...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	James Shirley	'Death the Leveller'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Bn. moved into Left sector. Macleod came back to "details" for a rest, and I went in as a/adjutant. Weather wet and c...	Robert Lindsay Mackay		[telegrams, letters, and reports]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.'	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my p...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Saw most exciting smash of an aeroplane against the buildings and tents of the 13th. Squadron R.F.C. Machine turned t...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Herbert George Wells	Ann Veronica	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Sunday 17th. Am pretty sure I will get back to the Battalion soon. Went to St. Pol, had lunch, bought some books. Sto...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Edward Verrall Lucas	Mr. Ingleside	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Henry Jones	?Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Tried stout for lunch. At 10 p.m. had stout and strawberries and cream given me (after it was dark) by two of the sis...	Robert Lindsay Mackay		['some novels']	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Grouped into platoons. Lectures. Finished "Soldier Poets".'	Robert Lindsay Mackay		Soldier Poets: Songs of the Fighting Men	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part...	Francis Pollard	William Shakespeare	The Two Noble Kinsmen
	1900-1945	F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ...	Katharine S. Evans	Shakespeare and Fletcher	The Two Noble Kinsmen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	War Time Tree Fellings	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the "Dec...	Martin Wentworth Littlewood	Edward Gibbon	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that ha...	Martin Wentworth Littlewood		The Daily Mail	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that ha...	Martin Wentworth Littlewood		[A work on vegetal medicine]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved<...	Reginald H. Robson	Reginald H. Robson	The Abolition of the House of Commons	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair 1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair 1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...	Reginald H. Robson	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair 1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...	Rosamund Wallis	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair 1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...	Helen Rawlings	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...	Janet Rawlings	Plato	The Republic	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...	Francis Pollard	Francis Pollard	Platoâ€™s Philosophy: Ideas the true reality	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Letter 24 March 1814] '''The Wanderer'' is to be out on Monday. It is the most interesting novel I have ev...	Fanny Allen	Frances D'Arblay	The Wanderer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv...	Reginald H. Robson	Victor Hugo	Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved	Reginald H. Robson	William Shakespeare	Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	William Shakespeare	Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved	Francis Pollard	Jerome K. Jerome	Three Men in a Boat
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929 Geo H Burrow in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...	Francis Pollard	Francis Pollard	[A survey of modern American literature]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929 Geo H Burrow in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...	Rosamund Wallis	Thornton Wilder	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929 Geo H Burrow in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...	Reginald H. Robson	Sinclair Lewis	Babbitt
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair Min 1. Minutes o...	Reginald H. Robson	Reginald H. Robson	[essay on a family holiday]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time re...	Francis Pollard	Gilbert Murray	[Introduction to his translation of Euripidesâ€™ Alcestis]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time re...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Reginald H. Robson	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Rosamund Wallis	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Francis Pollard	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930 H. M. Wallis in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...	Henry Marriage Wallis	John Masefield	Sard Harker	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930 H. M. Wallis in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...	Mignon Castle	John Masefield	Philip the King	Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930 H. M. Wallis in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	John Masefield	Philip the King	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [....	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	Southern Baroque Art	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair 1. Minutes of last appr...	John L. Hawkins	John L. Hawkins	[A paper on the natural history of the neighbourhood of Reading]	Manuscript: NotebookUnknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair 'Meeting held at School H...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[an account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932. Francis Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes...	Francis E. Pollard	Francis E. Pollard	[on the spirit of cricket]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932. Francis Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes...	Reginald H. Robson	Hugh de Selincourt	The Cricket Match	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32. George Burrow in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last appr...	Francis E. Pollard	MoliÃ¨re [pseud.]	The Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32. George Burrow in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last appr...	Rosamund Wallis	MoliÃ¨re [pseud.]	The Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32. George Burrow in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last appr...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	MoliÃ¨re [pseud.]	The Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32. George Burrow in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last appr...	Henry Marriage Wallis	MoliÃ¨re [pseud.]	The Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32 Reginald H. Robson in the Chair. 1. Minutes o...	Reginald H. Robson	Reginald H. Robson	[a paper on the life of Goethe]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32 Reginald H. Robson in the Chair. 1. Minutes o...	Janet Rawlings	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32. Henry M. Wallis in the chair 1. Minutes of las...	Francis E. Pollard	Francis E. Pollard	[an account of the life of Walter Scott]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32. Henry M. Wallis in the chair 1. Minutes of las...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[on the later work of Walter Scott]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32. Henry M. Wallis in the chair 1. Minutes of las...	Francis E. Pollard	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32. Henry M. Wallis in the chair 1. Minutes of las...	Rosamund Wallis	Walter Scott	Old Mortality	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of l...	Mignon Castle	Alfred Rawlings	[a thoughtful essay]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of l...	Janet Rawlings	Helen Rawlings	[reminiscences]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of l...	Reginald H. Robson	Howard Smith	[A paper on English justice]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933 C. E. Stansfield in the chair 1 Minutes of l...	Francis E. Pollard	Francis E. Pollard	[a short account of the life and work of Mary Russell Mitford]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Francis E. Pollard	Howard Smith	Newcomers to Reading	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Henry Marriage Wallis	My dear Twelve	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Reginald H. Robson	Dorothy Brain	Hors dâ€™Oeuvres	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934 F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes of last read & a...	Reginald H. Robson	Reginald H. Robson	[On the artistic and socialist aspects of William Morrisâ€™s work]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934 F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes of last read & a...	Reginald H. Robson	J. W. Mackail	The Life of William Morris	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suÃ¨de, with...	Edmund Blunden		The New Testament	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking ...	Edmund Blunden	unknown unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more...	Edmund Blunden	unknown unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scra...	Edmund Blunden	unknown unknown	unknown	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35. Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair 1. Minutes of...	Reginald H. Robson	Samuel Pepys	Diary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35. Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair 1. Minutes of...	Henry Marriage Wallis	William Morris		Unknown
	1900-1945	'More enduring [than the chocolates sent by Eden's mother, which were eaten by rats] was a copy of Robert Bridge's ...	Anthony Eden	Robert Bridges	The Spirit of Man	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ...	Anthony Eden		[A Russian Grammar]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ...	Anthony Eden	Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ...	Anthony Eden		[Russian novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Min...	Reginald H. Robson	Reginald H. Robson	The Excursion â€“ Saturday July 13th. 1935: Byways of the Chiltern Hills	Manuscript: Notebook, with photographs of the excursion pasted alongside the text.
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35 Â Â Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of ...	Rosamund Wallis	Ann Bridge	Illyrian Spring	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of la...	Francis E. Pollard	H. A. L. Fisher	History of Europe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &...	Frances Stevenson	Herbert George Wells	The Wife of Sir Eric Harman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &...	Frances Stevenson	Herbert George Wells	Anne Veronica	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw...	Frances Stevenson	George Meredith	The Egoist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37. Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Francis E. Pollard	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37. Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Francis E. Pollard	Lucy Harrison	A Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of Lucy Harrison	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37. C. E. Stanfield in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last...	Reginald H. Robson	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Prometheus Unbound
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last ...	Henry Marriage Wallis	Henry Marriage Wallis	[a paper on witchcraft]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last ...	Janet Rawlings	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last ...	Francis E. Pollard	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last ...	Rosamund Wallis	Mary Webb	Precious Bane	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns u...	Henry William Williamson	Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford	[article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispatch"]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Tell Father the Huns haven't started to run yet. If he reads the September "National Review" he will be surprised at ...	Henry William Williamson		National Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden to send picture postc...	Henry William Williamson		Daily Mail	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I wish you would send me the Daily Mail every other day, & also magazines (Pearsons etc) would be immensely appreciat...	Henry William Williamson			Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful — 3 mules drowned in shell craters l...	Henry William Williamson		[March magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The newspapers amuse us here immensely — we read of the Ger[mans] being driven back by our chaps —...	Henry William Williamson			Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we...	Henry William Williamson		Motor Cycling	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we...	Henry William Williamson		Motor Cycle	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we...	Henry William Williamson		Daily Mail	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'	Henry William Williamson		Daily Mail	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'	Henry William Williamson		Motor Cycle	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'	Henry William Williamson		Motor Cycling	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I received on the 3rd a parcel from you with biscuits and bulls eyes, and same time books and jersey with letter. The...	Henry William Williamson			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.â€™37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. T...	Helen Rawlings	William Fryer Harvey	Laughter and Ghosts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.â€™37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. T...	Francis E. Pollard	William Fryer Harvey	August Heat	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.â€™37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. T...	Janet Rawlings	William Fryer Harvey	Patience	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.â€™37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. T...	Helen Rawlings	William Fryer Harvey	Laughter and Ghosts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held 219 Kingâ€™s Road: 27. 11. 37. L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last re...	Rosamund Wallis	Laurence Housman	Victoria Regina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held 219 Kingâ€™s Road: 27. 11. 37. L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last re...	Francis E. Pollard	Laurence Housman	Victoria Regina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37 C. E. Stansfield in the Chair. 1. Minutes of las...	Mignon Castle	Victor Alexander	[letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37 [...] 6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra...	Reginald H. Robson	Sinclair Lewis	Dodsworth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37 [...] 6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	John Galsworthy	The White Monkey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at St. Margaretâ€™s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes...	Francis E. Pollard	Ã† [pseud.]	The one dimensional mind	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at St. Margaretâ€™s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes...	Francis E. Pollard	Ã† [pseud.]	[One or more unidentified poems]	Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at St. Margaretâ€™s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes...	Rosamund Wallis	J. M. Synge	The Tinkerâ€™s Wedding	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject â€œBooks that people have been readingâ€ ...	Reginald H. Robson	Saki [pseud.]	Beasts and Super-Beasts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject â€œBooks that people have been readingâ€ ...	Reginald H. Robson	Saki [pseud.]	Beasts and Super-Beasts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject â€œBooks that people have been readingâ€ ...	Francis E. Pollard	John A. Spender	The Comments of Bagshot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject â€œBooks that people have been readingâ€ ...	Francis E. Pollard	John A. Spender	The Comments of Bagshot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject â€œBooks that people have been readingâ€ ...	Francis E. Pollard	Kurt Von Stutterheim	Those English!	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject â€œBooks that people have been readingâ€ ...	Francis E. Pollard	Kurt Von Stutterheim	Those English!	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38. 1. Minutes of last read and approved. [...] 4. Readings from Iri...	Rosamund Wallis	unknown	[a specimen of Irish literature]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic...	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Frederic Harrison	Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case ag...	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Ralph Milbanke	Astarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord Byron	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Sha...	Albert John Martin	Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle bec...	Albert John Martin	William Shakespeare	The Merchant of Venice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Received a parcel from Elsie containing tobacco (most welcome), papers and a little book of war poems called [italics...	Albert John Martin	Siegfried Sassoon	Counter-Attack and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shaved, breakfast - porridge, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Mystery of the Sands" [sic]. Dinner of roast beef, cabba...	John Frederick William Dunn	Erskine Childers	The Riddle of the Sands	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".'	John Frederick William Dunn	William Magnay	The Amazing Duke	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'D[inner] Stew, potatoes, rice. Read "The Call of the Wild". Dozed.'	John Frederick William Dunn	Jack London	The Call of the Wild	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read. Received kit. Read "The Edge o' Beyond". Inoculated.'	John Frederick William Dunn	Gertrude Page	The Edge o' Beyond	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read. Wounds dressed. Read "The Japs at Home".'	John Frederick William Dunn	Douglas Sladen	The Japs at Home	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".'	John Frederick William Dunn	John Oxenham	Barbe of Grand Bayon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".'	John Frederick William Dunn	Robert W. Service	Rhymes of a Red Cross Man	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read, wounds dressed. Read "The Way of an Eagle".'	John Frederick William Dunn	Ethel Dell	The Way of an Eagle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read ... "Barlash [sic] of the Guard". Dressed & sat by the fire. Dominoes.'	John Frederick William Dunn	Henry Seton Merriman	Barlasch of the Guard	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read "An Adventure of the North".'	John Frederick William Dunn	Gilbert Parker	An Adventure of the North	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read. Wounds dressed ... Visit from Miss Davies and a friend (Miss Stevenson). She brought 8 books & chocs. Talked fo...	John Frederick William Dunn	Anthony Hope Hawkins	The Chronicles of Count Antonio	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the B...	John Edward Needham		The Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read...	John Frederick William Dunn	John Masefield	Gallipoli	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read...	John Frederick William Dunn	Anthony Hope Hawkins	Tales of Two People	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).'	John Frederick William Dunn	John Masefield	Gallipoli	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read "The Coryston Family". Was again fitted with a uniform. Wrote to Mrs Davies.'	John Frederick William Dunn	Mrs Humphry Ward	The Coryston Family	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsle...	John Frederick William Dunn	Ian Hay	The Right Stuff	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Still here [in camp] doing nothing and enjoying books. One book Ernest Maltravers by Lytton has impressed me very much.'	John Owen Maddox	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	Ernest Maltravers	Print: Book

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